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  • Vue des parterres et du canal du château de Sceaux en 1736

  • Portrait de Joseph Jérome Le Français de Lalande

  • Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin

  • Les Festes de Thalie

  • Arion

  • Arion

Rameau and his work

Death of Jean Rameau (rue de la Vannerie, Dijon).     
Jean-Philippe Rameau returns to Dijon and goes on a retreat to St Vivant abbey, near the vineyards of Vosne-Romanée; one section of the vineyards bears the name ‘La Croix Rameau’, thus commemorating his visit.

Rameau and his period

Birth of C .P .E. Bach in Weimar.         

Birth of Gluck in Erasbach .      

Corelli's opus 6 Concerti grossi, including the Christmas Concerto, published posthumously in Amsterdam.

The Duchesse du Maine initiates her famous Grandes Nuits de Sceaux (1714-1715).  

Lalande, as the only sous-maître of the Chapelle royale, has full responsibility for the church music for the whole year.  

Couperin's Concerts royaux published in Paris.

Première of Mouret's Les Fêtes de Thalie at the Académie royale de musique.            

Birth in Crépy-en-Valois of Leclerc de La Bruère, one of Rameau's librettists.

Première of Matho's Arion at the Académie royale de musique.