His Concerted Music for Harpsichord, for two violins and harpsichord, was among the earliest works to give the keyboard an independent part.  
His Concerted Music for Harpsichord, for two violins and harpsichord, was among the earliest works to give the keyboard an independent part.  He was an important music theorist and published the Treatise on Harmony, which later secured him a position as a composer for the financier La Poupliniere.  The Pi?es de Clavecin pour Concerts is his most famous chamber work, though he was better known for his court appointment at Versailles as a composer of operas.  A participant in the War of the Buffoons, he criticized Pergolesi in favor of exciting music as seen in his works, Les Paladins, Castor and Pollux, and Hippolytus and Aricia.  FTP, name this French Baroque operatic composer of the early 18th-century
His Concerted Music for Harpsichord, for two violins and harpsichord, was among the earliest works to give the keyboard an independent part.  
Jean-Philippe Rameau