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Rameau and his work
Acte de notoriété officially setting right the erroneous mention on some documents of the name of Jean-Baptiste Rameau in place of that of his brother Jean-Philippe.
Rameau elected a member of the literary society in Dijon founded by Richard de Ruffey.
Letter from Rameau to the author of ‘Réflexions sur la manière de former la voix’ (Mercure de France), including musical memories of Lyon.
Rameau works on Linus (never finished); same libretto set by Dauvergne in collaboration with Berton and Trial in 1771.
Pygmalion performed at Versailles, Concert de la reine, 15 January.
Première of La Guirlande sèche ou Les Fleurs fanées, an anonymous parody of Rameau's La Guirlande.
Rameau and his period
Relationship between Louis XV and the marquise de Pompadour by now platonic.
Beginning of the Querelle des Bouffons, following the performances in Paris of Pergolesi's La Serva padrona.
Première of Rousseau's Le Devin du village at Fontainebleau.
Second stay in Paris and at Versailles of the famous castrato Farinelli.
Première of Dauvergne's first opera, Les Amours de Tempé, at the Académie royale de musique.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the singer Mademoiselle Dubois.
D'Alembert's Eléments de musique théorique et pratique suivant les principes de M. Rameau published in Paris.
Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orléans published in Geneva.
Death in Paris of Fuzelier, one of Rameau's librettists.