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Rameau and his work
Claude-Bernard Rameau terminates his contract with Notre Dame in Dijon, in order to devote himself to the duties of organist at St Bénigne.
Rameau writes to Hans Sloane (London).
Rameau opens ‘a school of composition’ at his home in rue des Bons-Enfants (announcement in Le Mercure de France).
Première of Castor et Pollux (first version) at the Académie royale de musique.
Génération harmonique, ou traité de musique théorique et pratique published in Paris.
Les Indes galantes performed at Versailles, Concert de la Reine, 9 and 11 February.
Première of Castor et Pollux, parody by Riccoboni and Romagnesi of Rameau's Castor et Pollux.
Rameau and his period
C.1737, Leclair's opus 7 Violin Concertos published in Paris.
First stay in Paris and Versailles of the famous castrato Farinelli.
Telemann, visit to Paris.
Death of Montéclair in Domont.
Première of Les Éléments, a ‘symphonie chorégraphique’ by (Jean-Féry) Rebel, at the Académie royale de musique.