170217031704
Rameau and his work
Jean Rameau leaves his position as organist of St Pierre in Dijon.
Rameau and his period
Handel moves to Hamburg.
Première of Ulysse by Jean-Féry Rebel at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Le Carnaval et la Folie by Destouches at Fontainebleau; same work later given at the Académie royale de musique.
At the age of 20, Rameau learns the "octave rule" with M. Lacroix, in Montpellier (considering the letter to Montéclair, Mercure de France 1730)