Rameau

Simon Trowbridge

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English

Englance Press
15 November 2017

Western "classical" music; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Social & cultural history

[Please note that a new, much revised and updated, edition of this book was published in 2023 under the title ''Rameau: A Life'.]

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) was both the greatest French composer and the most influential scientist of music of the 18th century. His personality was as complex and as singular as his music and his ideas. When he finally achieved fame as an opera composer he polarised Parisian society.

Simon Trowbridge's book is the first general study of Rameau's life and work to be published in English in over half a century. It is both an elegant introduction to Rameau and an exploration of his significance as a major figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Paris during the middle decades of the 18th century.

Rameau emerges as a musician who was politically as well as artistically radical, an often paradoxical figure who worked within the official realms of the Opéra and the court but who remained his own man.

By: Simon Trowbridge
Imprint: Englance Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
ISBN: 9781999730505
ISBN 10: 199973050X
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 15 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Trowbridge was born in Oxford, England, in 1961 and educated at King's College, London, and University College, London