JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU

Jean-Philippe Rameau joined theoretical precision with theatrical brilliance in French Baroque music. A composer, organist, and theorist in France, he wrote keyboard works, treatises, and operas that expanded the world shaped earlier by Lully. Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, and Castor et Pollux show his command of harmony, dance, color, and stage spectacle.

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3 articles related to JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU:

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  ORCHESTRA

  Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style

  Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées...
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  Nature Sounds

  Why birds sing their songs: great maestros proving the musicality of nightingale, cuckoo, yellowhammer

  It is no coincidence that the sounds emitted by birds are known in many languages as "songs", rather than simple animal... 1 comment
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  PIANO

  Choosing career in music got Rameau expelled from school

  Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) was one of the truly multifaceted French composers and theorists, with his theoretical...