Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; (1683-09-25)25 September 1683 – (1764-09-12)12 September 1764) was 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. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722) and also in the following years as a composer of masterpieces for the harpsichord, which circulated throughout Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Philippe Rameau has received more than 547,565 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Jean-Philippe Rameau is the 51st most popular composer (down from 50th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from France (up from 167th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Composer.