Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was attacked by those who preferred Lully's style.

Works

Instrumental works

• Several suites for harpsichord (3 books published 1706, 1724, 1728)
• Les pièces de clavecin en concert (1741)
• several orchestral suites extracted from his operas

Cantatas, Motets

• Motet Deus noster refugium (before 1716)
• Motet In convertendo (c.1718)
• Motet Quam dilecta (1720)
• Thétis (1727)
• Le berger fidèle (1728)

Lyric tragedy

• Hippolyte et Aricie (1734)
• Castor et Pollux (1737)
• Dardanus (1739)
• Zoroastre (1756)
• Les Boréades (1763)

Other works for the stage (operas and ballets)

• Les Indes galantes (1735-36)
• La Princesse de Navarre (1744, textbook by Voltaire)
• Platée (1745)
• Pygmalion (1748)
• Naïs (1749)
• La Guirlande (1751)
• Zéphire (Les Nymphes de Diane) (1754)
• Anacréon (1757)
• Les Paladins (1760)