Jean-Philippe Rameau (1 gen 1683 anni – 1 gen 1764 anni)

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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.

The operas of Lully’s greatest successor, Rameau, followed many aspects of the older
composer’s works.
2. Rameau’s style is not drastically different from that of Lully, simply more of each element: richer harmony, sumptuous sonority, thicker texture, rhythmically and rhetorically more heroic, and a mastermind of genre.
3. Rameau’s complexity was not welcomed by all Frenchmen, and tensions arose in the
press on each side (Lully vs. Rameau).
4. Nonetheless, Rameau was seen as Lully’s successor and the primary composer of
French operatic style
5. Later in the century, the Querelle des Bouffons caused debate over the suitability of
Italian opera in France, and which style was better.

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