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Rameau and his work
‘Examen de la conférence sur la musique’ published by the Mercure de France.
Rameau and his period
Birth of the Dauphin, Louis-Ferdinand de France.
Bach's Matthäus-Passion premièred in Leipzig.
Le Ballet du Parnasse, a pastiche composed by Colin de Blamont for the birth of the Dauphin, presented in a temporary theatre set up in the Marble Courtyard.
Birth of Monsigny in Fauquembergues.
Beginning of the controversy between Rameau and Montéclair in the Mercure de France.