He was practically unknown until the age of forty, when, in 1722, he published his Treatise on Harmony. This made him known as a philosopher, but his patron La Popelini?e (poh-plan-ee-AIR) helped him succeed as a popular opera composer, with the production in the 1730s of su
He was practically unknown until the age of forty, when, in 1722, he published his Treatise on Harmony. This made him known as a philosopher, but his patron La Popelini?e (poh-plan-ee-AIR) helped him succeed as a popular opera composer, with the production in the 1730s of such works as Hippolyte et Aricie (ee-poh-LEET ay ah-ree-SEE), Dardanus, Les Indes gallantes (lay zand gah-LANT), and his masterpiece Castor et Pollux. FTP, name 18th-century France's foremost musician, whose nephew appears in a 1762 dialogue by Denis Diderot (dee-duh-ROH).
He was practically unknown until the age of forty, when, in 1722, he published his Treatise on Harmony.
Jean-Philippe Rameau (ruh-MOH)