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Rameau and his work
Rameau and his period
Bach moves to Weimar.
Birth of Duni in Matera.
Campra's Hippodamie premièred at the Académie royale de musique.
Retirement of the singer Mademoiselle Desmatins.
Birth in Grenoble of Pierre-Joseph Bernard (known as ‘Gentil-Bernard’), one of Rameau's librettists.
Première of Destouches's Issé (second version) at the Académie royale de musique.