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Jean Philippe Rameau: 'Les Indes Galantes' Suite (excerpt)

J.P. Rameau - ‘Les Indes Galantes’, Suite (excerpt) - Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen – conductor: -Prologue: Ouverture; Air pour les esclaves africains; Air vif; Air pour deux Polonais; Contredanse -Le Turc généreux: Forlane des matelots; Tambourins I – II -Les Incas du Pérou: Gavottes I – II -Les Fleurs: Marche; Air pour Borée et la Rose -Les Sauvages: Air pour les Sauvages; Chaconne Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years, and it was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722) and also in the following years as a composer of masterpieces for the harpsichord, which circulated throughout Europe. He was almost 50 before he embarked on the operatic career on which his reputation chiefly rests today. His debut, "Hippolyte et Aricie" (1733), caused a great stir and was fiercely attacked by the supporters of Lully's style of music for its revolutionary use of harmony. Meanwhile, Rameau had introduced his new musical style into the lighter genre of the opéra-ballet with the highly successful “Les Indes galantes”. It was followed by two tragédies en musique, “Castor et Pollux” (1737) and “Dardanus” (1739), and another opéra-ballet, “Les fêtes d'Hébé” (also 1739). All these operas of the 1730s are among Rameau's most highly regarded works. Rameau's music had gone out of fashion by the end of the 18th century, and it was not until the 20th that serious efforts were made to revive it. Today, he enjoys renewed appreciation with performances and recordings of his music ever more frequent.