Rameau
Jean Phi·lippe [zhahnfee-leep], /ʒɑ̃ fiˈlip/, 1683–1764, French composer and musical theorist.
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Jovan Rameau, a Haitian immigrant, graduated from the Institute of Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.
Working as a busboy in Miami during the 1980s, Rameau often faced racism due to his ethnicity.
Having long resided at Paris, he was fond of music, and particularly that of Rameau.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauRameau pretended to see nothing in me but a contemptible pilferer, without talents or taste.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauHad Mondonville or Rameau undergone the same ordeal, they would have lost much of their substance.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques Rousseau
We all recollect that, in the days of Lulli, there was but one opinion of his music, yet Rameau came and everything was changed.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete | Jacques Casanova de SeingaltRameau had a violent party against him, who would have exterminated him; and he knew nothing of it.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
British Dictionary definitions for Rameau
/ (French ramo) /
Jean Philippe (ʒɑ̃ filip). 1683–1764, French composer. His works include the opera Castor et Pollux (1737), chamber music, harpsichord pieces, church music, and cantatas. His Traité de l'harmonie (1722) was of fundamental importance in the development of modern harmony
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