A master of the harpsichord, many of his 65 keyboard works are indebted to Couperin and are compiled into his four books.
A master of the harpsichord, many of his 65 keyboard works are indebted to Couperin and are compiled into his four books. His varied output includes the ballets Anacreon and Pygmalion, and he first made his name in music circles with his ideas about inversion and progression, which he sketched out in the influential Treatise on Harmony. But he was most famous for introducing more vivid emotion into operas like Hippolyte et Aricie, Zoroastre, and Dardanus, works that rejected Lully's ideas. FTP identify this composer best known for the works Castor et Pollux and Les Indes Gallantes, whose nephew is a main character in a novel by Denis Diderot.
A master of the harpsichord, many of his 65 keyboard works are indebted to Couperin and are compiled into his four books.
Jean Phillipe Rameau