175217531754
Rameau and his work
Death of Marguerite, Rameau's sister.
Rameau, living in rue Villedot, parish of St Roch, renounces his sister's estate before a notary.
End of Rameau's association with La Pouplinière; subsequently his position is taken by Johann Stamitz, then François-Joseph Gossec.
Rameau and his wife attend the performances at Marly of Les Indes Galantes.
Première of Daphnis et Eglé in the Théâtre de Fontainebleau.
Première of Lysis et Délie in the Théâtre de Fontainebleau.
Première of Les Sybarites in the Théâtre de Fontainebleau.
Composition of Zéphyre (c.1753).
First revival of Les Fêtes de Polymnie at the Académie royale de musique.
Partial revival of Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (‘Aruéris’) in the Théâtre de Fontainebleau.
Partial revival of Les Fêtes d'Hébé ou Les Talents lyriques (‘La Danse’) in the Théâtre de Fontainebleau.
Prologue and first entrée from Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour performed at Versailles, Concert de la reine for Maria Josepha of Saxony, 18 July.
Les Fêtes d'Hébé given at Compiègne, Concert de la reine, 28 and 30 July.
Rameau and his period
Louis XV purchases the Hôtel d'Évreux (now the Elysée Palace, official residence of the President of the French Republic) as a residence for the marquise de Pompadour.
Première of Mondonville's Titon et l'Aurore at the Académie royale de musique.
Rousseau's Le Devin du village staged at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Dauvergne's Les Troqueurs (libretto by Vadé) at the Foire Saint-Laurent.
Stay in Paris of the famous castrato Caffarelli; he also sings before Louis XV at Versailles.
Retirement of the singer Marie-Angélique Coupé.
Publication in Paris of Rousseau's Lettre sur la musique française.
First volume of Friedrich Melchior Grimm's Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique.