Título: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Seção: Instrumental music
Background: Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [Zafilip Ramo]; (1683-09-25)25 September 1683 - (1764-09-12)12 September 1764) was 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 Francois Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years, and it was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722) and also in the following years as a composer of masterpieces for the harpsichord, which circulated throughout Europe.

Conteúdo: Along with Francois Couperin, Rameau is one of the two masters of the French school of harpsichord music in the 18th century. Both composers made a decisive break with the style of the first generation of harpsichordists, who confined their compositions to the relatively fixed mould of the classical suite. This reached its apogee in the first decade of the 18th century with successive collections of pieces by Louis Marchand, Gaspard Le Roux, Louis-Nicolas Clerambault, Jean-Francois Dandrieu, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Charles Dieupart, and Nicolas Siret.  Rameau and Couperin have different styles. They seem not to have known one another (Couperin was one of the official court musicians while Rameau was still an unknown; fame would only come to him after Couperin's death). Rameau published his first book of harpsichord pieces in 1706 while Couperin (who was fifteen years his senior) waited until 1713 before publishing his first "ordres." Rameau's music includes pieces in the pure tradition of the French suite: imitative ("Le rappel des oiseaux," "La poule") and character ("Les tendres plaintes", "L'entretien des Muses") pieces and works of pure virtuosity that resemble Scarlatti ("Les tourbillons," "Les trois mains") as well as pieces that reveal the experiments of a theorist and musical innovator ("L'Enharmonique", "Les Cyclopes"), which had a marked influence on Daquin, Royer, and Jacques Duphly. The suites are grouped in the traditional way, by key.  Rameau's three col

user: What kind of instrumental music did he make?

assistant: confined their compositions to the relatively fixed mould of the classical suite.

user: Who else confined their compositions to classical suite?

assistant: Francois Couperin,

user: Did Rameau work with Couperin?

assistant: They seem not to have known one another

user: When did Rameau begin composing instrumental music?

assistant: Rameau published his first book of harpsichord pieces in 1706

user: Did he compose music for other instruments?

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user: What were some of his pieces?

assistant: ("Le rappel des oiseaux," "La poule")

user: Were there any other pieces listed?

assistant: ("L'Enharmonique", "Les Cyclopes"),

user: When did Rameau stop making instrumental music?

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user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: During his semiretirement in the years 1740 to 1744, he wrote the Pieces de clavecin en concert (1741),

user: How was his instrumental music received?

assistant: some musicologists consider the pinnacle of French Baroque chamber music.