Rameau - 2nd Edition by Simon Trowbridge (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A biography of the French 18th century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, the first to be published in English in over half a century. A highly readable study of Rameau's life and work, it should appeal to both general readers and students. Rameau's personality was as singular as his music. He emerges as a divisive but misunderstood figure.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was both the greatest French composer and the most influential scientist of music of the 18th century. His personality was as complex and as singular as his music and his ideas. When he finally achieved fame as an opera composer he polarised Parisian society like no other artistic figure of his time. <br /> <br /> Simon Trowbridge's book, now in its second edition, is the first general study of Rameau's life and work to be published in English in over half a century. It is both an elegant introduction to Rameau and an exploration of his significance as a major figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Paris during the middle decades of the 18th century. <br /> <br /> Rameau emerges as a musician who was politically as well as artistically radical, an often paradoxical figure who worked within the official realms of the Opéra and the court but who remained his own man</p>
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