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Jean-Philippe Rameau

1683 - 1764

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Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; (1683-09-25)25 September 1683 – (1764-09-12)12 September 1764) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as 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 of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Philippe Rameau has received more than 929,747 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Philippe Rameau is the 48th most popular composer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from France and the 6th most popular French Composer.

Jean-Philippe Rameau is most famous for his contributions to the French opera. He was a composer, theorist, and organist.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jean-Philippe Rameau ranks 48 out of 1,451. Before him are Modest Mussorgsky, Carl Maria von Weber, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Edward Elgar, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini. After him are Aram Khachaturian, Tomaso Albinoni, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonio Salieri, and Orlande de Lassus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, Jean-Philippe Rameau ranks 2. Before him is Philip V of Spain. After him are Caroline of Ansbach, George II of Great Britain, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, 6th Dalai Lama, Maria Anna of Austria, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Gottfried Silbermann, Christoph Graupner, and Edward Young. Among people deceased in 1764, Jean-Philippe Rameau ranks 2. Before him is Madame de Pompadour. After him are Ivan VI of Russia, William Hogarth, Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Johann Mattheson, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, Francesco Algarotti, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Philippe Rameau ranks 170 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Henry Cavendish (1731), Jean Racine (1639), and Tacitus (54). After him are Edward IV of England (1442), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Pope Urban V (1310), Annie Ernaux (1940), and Louis VII of France (1120).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Jean-Philippe Rameau ranks 6. Before him are Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Hector Berlioz (1803). After him are Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Erik Satie (1866), Jules Massenet (1842), Charles Gounod (1818), Gabriel Fauré (1845), and Josquin des Prez (1450).

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