Jean-Philippe Rameau
composer

Jean-Philippe Rameau

  • September 25, 1683 Dijon - September 12, 1764 Paris

Biography

Jean-Philippe Rameau: the bad student who preferred music

Jean-Philippe Rameau went to school at the Jesuit college at Godrans, but he was a bad pupil and disrupted classes. His parents wanted him to study law, but Rameau decided he wanted to be a musician. His father taught him music, and sent him to Italy where he stayed only three months. When he came back to France, he started his organist career, playing in Clermont-Ferrand's cathedral, in Avignon and in Lyon.

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Concours musical international de Montréal: Finals (I/IV)
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#WorldPianoDay: a virtual festival with the greatest pianists
#WorldPianoDay: a virtual festival with the greatest pianists

With Maria João Pires, Rudolf Buchbinder, Evgen...

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A Baroque Odyssey: Les Arts Florissants celebrates 40 years — With William Christie
A Baroque Odyssey: Les Arts Florissants celebrates 40 years — With William Christie

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Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie
Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

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Crazy for Opera: backstage at the Bavarian State Opera
Crazy for Opera: backstage at the Bavarian State Opera

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Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert, Beethoven, Rameau, and Brahms
Grigory Sokolov plays Schubert, Beethoven, Rameau, and Brahms

Recital at the Berliner Philharmonie

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A Baroque Celebration with Natalie Dessay, Philippe Jaroussky, Patricia Petibon, Rolando Villazón, Anne Sofie von Otter...
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Jordi Savall conducts Corelli, Telemann and Rameau
Jordi Savall conducts Corelli, Telemann and Rameau

Le Concert Spirituel at the Time of Louis XV

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Rameau's Castor et Pollux
Rameau's Castor et Pollux

Pierre Audi (stage director), Christophe Rousse...

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rameau and Berlioz
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rameau and Berlioz

Berliner Philharmoniker

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Sophie de Bardonnèche and Justin Taylor in a "Rendez-vous Baroque"
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Zoroastro – Io, Giacomo Casanova
Zoroastro – Io, Giacomo Casanova

A Musical Film by Gianni Di Capua

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Rameau's Les Indes galantes
Rameau's Les Indes galantes

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (stage director), Ivor Bol...

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Rameau's Dardanus
Rameau's Dardanus

Michel Fau (stage director), Raphaël Pichon (co...

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Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie
Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christi...

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"Le Grand Théâtre de l'Amour": Sabine Devieilhe sings Rameau
"Le Grand Théâtre de l'Amour": Sabine Devieilhe sings Rameau

With Les Ambassadeurs and Alexis Kossenko

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Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar
Andrés Segovia: The Song of the Guitar

A film by Christopher Nupen

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Ji Liu plays Schubert, Rzewski, Liszt, Scriabin, Debussy, and Saint-Saëns
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Swinging Rameau – After Les Indes galantes
Swinging Rameau – After Les Indes galantes

A documentary analysis by Reiner E. Moritz, fea...

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Legato, The World of Piano: Pöntinen
Legato, The World of Piano: Pöntinen

A portrait of Roland Pöntinen

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