 15/12/2005
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| Jean-Philippe Rameau’s (1683-1764) first opera was staged when he was fifty years old; his last, written when he was over eighty, was not given until the twentieth-century. Rameau’s aesthetics are thus characterised by maturity, density, homogeneity, and chronological clarity. |
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| 30/11/2005
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| Vigo, 12 January, 10 am. Today, Frans Brüggen, director of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and one of the most important figures in early music, has a few hours off during his lengthy tour. |
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| 08/12/2005
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| One of four pastorales-héroiques, Rameau's Naïs of 1748 was commissioned, like Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, to celebrate the signing of the peace treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle and the War of the Austrian Succession and deals with the winning of the hand of the nymph, Naïs, by Neptune. |
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| 15/11/2005
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| In the ironic words of Piron, “All of (Rameau’s) soul and mind were in his harpsichord; when he closed the instrument, there was no one at home”. It would be difficult to express better Rameau’s attachment to the instrument for which he wrote the largest part of his instrumental music. |
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