Jean-Philippe Rameau (Rameau, 1683-1764) was born in Dijon on September 25, 1683 and died in Paris on September 12, 1764. He was the greatest composer and theorist in France during the Baroque period, together with Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750), Handel (Handel, 1685-1759), Domenico Scala D.Scarlatti (1685-1757) and Telemann (Te lemann, 1681-1767) lived in the same era. They were not only leading figures in the French music scene at that time - especially in dramatic music, but also important foundations of harmony theory. people.

Rameau's father was an organist in Saint-Etienne in Dijon and the first musician in the family; his mother, Claudine Demadenacourt , from a slightly lower-status aristocratic family from a village near Gémeaux. Jean-Philippe was the seventh of eleven children. He was sent to the Jesuit college in Gaudes, where he spent more time singing and composing than studying. In 1702 he became temporary organist of Avignon Cathedral; in May he was appointed organist of Clermont Cathedral. It was not until 1706 that he arrived in Paris and became organist of the Jesuits on the Avenue Saint-Jacques and the Mercé de Leon on the Avenue Chaumet, where he published his first volume of harpsichord music. In 1709, Rameau returned to Dijon and succeeded his father's work at Notre Dame de Paris; in July 1713, he played the organ at the Jacobin in Lyon, and returned to Clermont Cathedral in April 1715. , where he spent another eight years. In order to ensure his freedom before the expiration of his contract, he made himself intolerable at a banquet: first by refusing to play, then by plucking all the most unpleasant stops on the organ and adding as many as possible Dissonance. After the Congregation allowed him to leave there, he went again to Paris in 1722 or early 1723, and settled there. In Lyon and Clermont he had already composed a number of motets and secular cantatas, and completed his first book, Traite del'harmonie, which was published by Ballard ) was published in 1722, while Rameau was still organist at Clermont Cathedral.

During his first nine years in Paris, he seems to have held no position. For the Farr Theater he and his companion Piron took part in skits and revues. In 1724 and 1728, Rameau published his second and third organ works. In 1726, he married a 19-year-old girl named Marie Louise Mangot, who was a daughter of a Lyon musical family. Later, with the help of her brother, Rameau's Music became famous at the court of Parma. In 1727, he competed with Daquin (1694-1772) for the position of organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, but ultimately lost. In 1732, Rameau was already the organist of Saint-Croix in Bretoneri, and in 1736 he became a Jesuit monk. His "Harmony" and "New System of Music Theory" (Noveau systeme de musique theorique, 1726), as well as several previous papers and discussions in "Mercury", allow people to see his status as a great theorist. potential, but his greatest wish is to create on stage. In 1727, LaMotte-Houdar asked LaMotte-Houdar to write a script, but it had a beginning and no end. Around 1726, Pilon introduced him to Le Riche de la Poupliniere, a man who ran a private orchestra and whose wife, Marie-Thérèse de Marie-Therese Deshayes is an admirer of Rameau.

At La Bouprinier's house, Rameau met the playwright Abbe Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1633-1745), who created 15 tragedies, tragic lyrics and ballets. He also wrote an opera libretto. Rameau's first opera "Hippolyte et Aricie" (Hippolyte et Aricie) was premiered at La Bouplinier's house in July 1733, and premiered at the Opera House on October 1 of the same year. Performance. He was just 50 years old there, and Pelgren was already 70 years old. Since then, Rameau has demonstrated his talents in both the fields of composition and theory. For 22 years he was conductor of the orchestra of the financier, La Bouprignier, and from 1744 to 1753 he lived in his mansion (now 59 Avenue Richelieu Number). When Rameau left there, he returned to Bangs-en-Fate, where he had lived from 1739 to 1744. From then on he lived there until his death in 1764.