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Rameau and his work
Jean Rameau alters his will, leaving to Jean-Philippe the instruments originally beqeathed to Claude-Bernard.
Birth in Paris of Marie-Louise Mangot, Jean-Philippe Rameau's future wife, and daughter of the musician Jacques Mangot.
The ‘peasants' duet’ Lucas pour se gausser de nous published in Paris by Ballard, in a collection of airs sérieux et à boire .
Reprint of the Premier Livre de Pièces pour clavecin.
Rameau and his period
Première of Handel's Dixit Dominus in Rome.
Retirement of the dancer Marie-Thérèse Perdou de Subligny.
Birth of Corette in Rouen.
Première of La Coste's Bradamante at the Académie royale de musique.