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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony and also in the following years as a composer of masterpieces for the harpsichord, which circulated throughout Europe. He was almost 50 before he embarked on the operatic career on which his reputation chiefly rests today. His debut, Hippolyte et Aricie, caused a great stir and was fiercely attacked by the supporters of Lully's style of music for its revolutionary use of harmony. Nevertheless, Rameau's pre-eminence in the field of French opera was soon acknowledged, and he was later attacked as an "establishment" composer by those who favoured Italian opera during the controversy known as the Querelle des Bouffons in the 1750s. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Rameau) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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"Les Plaisirs" - Baroque Masterpieces 2025
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Vivaldi "The Four Seasons" & Other Baroque Masterpieces 2025
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Les sentiments: French Baroque Masterworks 2025
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"The Four Seasons" & Other Baroque Masterpieces 2025
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Rameau: Complete Keyboard Music 2025
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Around Couperin 2025
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Rameau & Scriabin: Piano Works 2024
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Abendlied. Piano Music of Handel and Schumann. Visions from the Golden Age 2024
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Jean Philippe Rameau: Complete Works for Harpsichord 2023
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WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan 2023
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Rameau: Les Indes galantes: "Viens, Hymen" Single • 2024
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Rameau: Menuets, RCT 6/3-4 Single • 2023
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Rameau: Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7: I. Gavotte Single • 2023
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Rameau: In convertendo Dominus: VII. Chœur. "Euntes ibant et flebant" (feat. Emmanuelle Ifrah, Marie Perbost, Samuel Boden & Victor Sicard) Single • 2023
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Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode, Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: V. Le rappel des oiseaux (Arr. by Edward Higginbottom for Organ) Single • 2023
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Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode, Suite in D Major, RCT 3: I. Les tendres plaintes Single • 2023
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Les Indes galantes, RCT 44: Viens Hymen (Arr. by Edward Higginbottom for Organ and Soprano) Single • 2023
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Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode, Suite in D Major, RCT 3: II. Les Niais de Sologne (Arr. by Edward Higginbottom for Organ) Single • 2023
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Les Indes galantes, RCT 44: Forêts paisibles (Arr. by Edward Higginbottom for Organ and Soprano) Single • 2023
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Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode, Suite in E Minor, RCT 2: VIII. Tambourin (Arr. by Edward Higginbottom for Organ and Percussion) Single • 2023
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Maestro plays this simple piece with MAGIC: Sokolov plays Rameau Les Cyclopes Self Taught Music Guide • 1.5K views
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Grigory Sokolov Rameau's "La Poule" lemonaid1206 • 1M views
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Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson) (Live at OPUS KLASSIK, 2020) Deutsche Grammophon - DG • 216K views
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