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Rameau
[ ra-moh ]
noun
- Jean Phi·lippe [zhah, n, fee-, leep], 1683–1764, French composer and musical theorist.
Rameau
/ ramo /
noun
- RameauJean Philippe16831764MFrenchMUSIC: composer 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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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.
Rameau pretended to see nothing in me but a contemptible pilferer, without talents or taste.
Had Mondonville or Rameau undergone the same ordeal, they would have lost much of their substance.
We all recollect that, in the days of Lulli, there was but one opinion of his music, yet Rameau came and everything was changed.
Rameau had a violent party against him, who would have exterminated him; and he knew nothing of it.
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