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Jean-Philippe Rameau: Quick Facts

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Facts

Baptized September 25, 1683
Died September 12, 1764 • Paris • France
Notable Works “Castor et Pollux” • “Hippolyte et Aricie” • “Les Indes galantes” • “Les Sauvages” • “Premier livre de pièces de clavecin” • “Pygmalion” • “Traité de l’harmonie”
Movement / Style Baroque music
Subjects Of Study harmony

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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
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Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
French composer
François Couperin
François Couperin
French composer [1668-1733]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
An oil painting from circa 1730 by Bartholomew Dandridge depicting the Italian composer Giovanni Bononcini seated and dressed in period clothing.
Giovanni Bononcini
Italian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini
Italian musician
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Antonio Soler
Spanish composer
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Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
French musician
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
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André Campra
French composer
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Michel de Montéclair
French composer

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