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Rameau and his work
Jean Rameau returns to his former position as organist of St Pierre in Dijon.
Jean-Philippe Rameau decides to become a musician and spends some months in Italy (Milan).
Rameau and his period
Beginning of the Spanish War of Succession (1701–1714).
Death at Saint-Cloud of the Duc d'Orléans (known as Monsieur), brother of Louis XIV .
Vivaldi's opus 1, 12 Sonate dacamera a tre, published in Venice.
Première of Omphale by Destouches at the Académie royale de musique.
Jean-Féry Rebel born in Paris.
Birth in Lyon of Gautier de Montdorge, one of Rameau's librettists.
Première of Campra's Aréthuse at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Bouvard's Médus roi des Mèdes at the Académie royale de musique.
Première of Campra's Fragments de Monsieur de Lully at the Académie royale de musique.