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 Fr
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)