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  • Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784)

  • André Danican Philidor

  • Blaise le savetier

  • Portrait de Gardel l'ainé, jouant de la harpe

  • Madame Victoire, fille de Louis XV, jouant de la harpe (1733-1799)

  • Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Rameau and his work

Letters from Rameau to Padre Martini on july 6, october 29 and december 2.

Letters from Rameau to Jacopo Beccari on april and august 7.

Rameau and his period

Death of Handel in London.

Première of Philidor's Blaise le Savetier at the Foire Saint-Germain.

Début at the Académie royale de musique of the dancer Maximilien Gardel, dit l'Aîné. 

Beaumarchais becomes harp teacher to Mesdames, the daughters of Louis XV. 

Death in Paris of Cahusac, one of Rameau's librettists.