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Rameau and his work
‘Remarques de Mr Rameau sur l'extrait de son livre “Génération harmonique, ou traité de musique théorique et pratique” published in Le Journal de Trévoux.
Rameau leaves his post as organist of Ste Croix de La Bretonnerie.
Castor et Pollux (first version) performed at Versailles, Concert de la reine, 14, 16, 18 June, with Rameau directing and his wife taking part as a singer.
Rameau and his period
Treaty of Vienna, ending the War of the Polish Succession; King Stanislas (Stanislaw Leszczyński) receives the duchies of Lorraine and Bar, which are to pass to France upon his death (1766).
Major works carried out at Fontainebleau at the request of Louis XV.
Domenico Scarlatti's 30 Essercizi for harpsichord published in London.
Blanchard appointed sous-maître of the Chapelle royale.
Daquin appointed organist of the Chapelle royale.
Mondonville moves to Paris.
Première of Colin de Blamont's Les Caractères de l'Amour at the Académie royale de musique.
Death of Mouret at Charenton asylum.
Birth of Giroust in Paris.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the singer Marie-Angélique Coupé.