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  • Vue de la Tour de St. Nicolas et d'une partie de Dijon

  • Michel-Richard de Lalande

  • Sémélé

  • Sémélé

  • Méléagre

  • Méléagre

Rameau and his work

Rameau returns to Dijon, where he signs a six-year contract as organist of Notre Dame, succeeding his father.

Rameau and his period

Première in Venice of Handel's Agrippina.

Lalande given full responsibility as surintendant of the Musique de la Chambre. 

Colasse dies in Versailles. 

Première of Sémélé, the last opera by Marais, at the Académie royale de musique.       

Birth in Paris of Collé, one of Rameau's librettists.

Première of Stuck's Méléagre at the Académie royale de musique.