The French composer viewed music as a science but would regret not putting theory into practice until later in life Jean-Philippe Rameau's first opera was not premiered until the Frenchman was 50 The ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

An arrangement of a piece French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau wrote for harpsichord. Harpist Rachel Harris, violinist Amy Kauffman, harpsichordist Christina Scott Eleden and cellist Fred Eleden ...

A longtime selling point for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has been that it usually performs music written for an ensemble of approximately its size. For example, the symphonies of Mozart and Joseph ...

On Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Samson at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In terms of the drama, one sequence stood out. Toward the end, a distraught Delilah commits suicide out of remorse, an idea taken from ...

When, in 1733, Voltaire, the most brilliant mind of his day, collaborates with Rameau, its greatest composer, in undertaking an ambitious reform of operatic practice, the result is the biblical opera ...

Donald Macleod begins three weeks focused on French composers, in honour of this month’s ‘Tour de France’ cycle race. "I have followed the theatre since the age of twelve", so said Rameau to a young ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and works of French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, whose revolutionary Treatise on Harmony still forms the basis of much music theory teaching today. During ...

Víkingur Ólafsson is the new superstar of the classical piano. His recent Bach album for Deutsche Grammophon won a string of awards, he directs two music festivals, he’s hosted his own TV show in his ...

The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures. By Zachary Woolfe Listen to our critics’ ...

Pianist Christopher O'Riley has gotten publicity lately for his transcriptions of songs by the band Radiohead, but here he gets back to basics, with the "Suite in E Minor," by Jean Philippe Rameau. He ...