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Jean Philippe Rameau
Known for the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes and others that established his
posterity, Rameau was also a great composer for the harpsichord and a highly
influential theorist of French Baroque music. Born into a family of eleven
children in Dijon on September 25, 1683, Jean-Philippe Rameau learned the
rudiments of music from his father Jean Rameau, organist at Saint-Étienne church
and later at Notre-Dame de Dijon. As a student at the Jesuit Collège des
Godrans, Rameau's singing disrupted lessons more than his attendance. Although
his father wanted him to become a magistrate, he ...
