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Rameau and his work
A document – an agreement leaving the Rameau home to the surviving spouse in the event of death – gives their new address as rue du Petit Potel, near the church of St Pierre in Dijon, where Jean Rameau is organist.
Rameau and his period
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Birth of Handel in Halle.
Birth of J. S. Bach in Eisenach.
Birth of Domenico Scarlatti in Naples.
Revival of Lully's Amadis in the temporary theatre known as the Théâtre du Manège, created in the riding-school of the Grande Écurie.
Première of Lully's Roland in the temporary theatre known as the Théâtre du Manège. Same work later presented at the Académie royale de musique.
Lully's Le Temple de la Paix premièred at Fontainebleau; later staged at the Académie royale de musique.