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Rameau and his work
Letter from Rameau to Mongeot published in the Mercure de France.
Birth of his daughter Marie-Alexandrine, baptised the following day.
Rameau living in rue St Thomas du Louvre.
Première of La Rose ou Les Jardins de l'Hymen, Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Foire Saint-Germain.
Première of Dardanus (second version) at the Académie royale de musique.
Rameau and his period
Illness and recovery of Louis XV, who henceforth becomes known as ‘Louis le Bien-Aimé’ (‘Louis the Well Beloved’).
After military campaigns lasting several weeks, the king returns to Versailles.
Death of the Duchesse de Châteauroux.
Première in London of Handel's Semele.
Bach completes the second part of Das wohl-temperierte Clavier.
Death of Campra.
Mondonville appointed sous-maître of the Chapelle royale.
Francœur obtains the reversion of Colin de Blamont's position as surintendant of the Musique de la Chambre.