Jean-Philippe Rameau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French Baroque composer and music theorist

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1683

Place of Birth: Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1764

Profession: composer, musician, organist, choreographer, harpsichordist, musicologist, music theorist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [??~filip ?amo]; (1683-09-25)25 September 1683 – (1764-09-12)12 September 1764) was 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 for the harpsichord of his time, 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 (1722) 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 (1733), 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.
Rameau's music had gone out of fashion by the end of the 18th century, and it was not until the 20th that serious efforts were made to revive it.
Today, he enjoys renewed appreciation with performances and recordings of his music ever more frequent.



Alternative names	Jacques André Joseph Camellot Aved, Aved le Batave, Le Batave
Description	French-Dutch painter and art collector
Date of birth/death	12 January 1702	4 March 1766
Location of birth/death	Douai (?)	Paris
Work location	Amsterdam, Paris (1721-....), Brussels (ca. 1738–1740), The Hague (1751), Paris
Authority control	: Q489437 VIAF: 66581430 ISNI: 0000 0000 6629 046X ULAN: 500022915 LCCN: nr90005707 WGA: AVED, Jacques-André-Joseph WorldCat



Alternative names	Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Description	French painter and pastellist
Date of birth/death	2 November 1700	6 December 1779
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	1724–1779
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q207447 VIAF: 12392613 ISNI: 0000 0001 2120 9709 ULAN: 500115331 LCCN: n79061326 NLA: 35905097 WorldCat