Ramo biography is brief

Ramo Rameau Jean Philip OK. Children's years of the musician took place in Dijon, one of the ancient musical centers of the country. The father of Ramo, the organist, managed to instill in his son a love of music and gave him his vast knowledge in this area. It is known that already at the age of 7, Ramo played well on the organ. In the same year, he is trying, but to no avail, settle in Paris.

Ramo moves to the capital only in the city, gradually, he gains fame as a teacher and the author of harpsichord plays. Two more collections of his essays for harpsichord are released, these collections are provided exclusively by the author’s methodological comments are characterized by the names: “Condor plays with the method for the technology of the fingers”, “New collections of harpsichord plays with notes regarding various musical genres”.

The harpsichord creativity of Ramo is largely close to F. Cuperen; In it, he also strove for the embodiment of the typical images and states of the Egyptian, Venetian, “indifferent”, “annoying”, “chirping birds”, “chicken”, “sighs”, etc. Some plays discover acquaintance with virtuoso handwriting D. Scarlatti "Three Hands", "WHIKHRI", "SOLOSKY SRADS".

In the harpsichord heritage of the Romo, 52 plays are composed clearly by the features characteristic of his composer style; The wealth of fantasy, ingenuity, wit are at ease with tender grace, sophistication. Ramo entered the path of the opera composer late. Only in the city of his first opera Samson, created in the Commonwealth with F. Voltaire, was not accepted on the stage due to the biblical plot.

In the new field of work, Ramo worked exclusively intensively and fruitfully. He owns about 40 musical and theater essays of different genres: more precisely, the heroic ballet "Galantni India", the lyrical tragedy "Castor and Polluks", the Comedy-Ballet "Platai", the heroic pastoral "Zasyis", the opera-ballet or, or rather, the lyrical comedy of "Paladina", on the plot of the fairy tale of J.

Laphontaine, etc. Ramo’s opera work historically was associated with obsolete aesthetics, but his music had a great impact on the subsequent generations of France composers. In parallel with the work of Ramo, he conducted intense work in the field of musical theory. This is perhaps the only case in history when the great composer and the great theorist merged in the personality of the musician.

Ramo sought to find common patterns in the science of harmony, to catch a single system. Having summarized the vast experience of the musical practice of the last two centuries, Ramo managed to reduce the whole variety of harmonies used to a small number of main chords Accords Fonda-Mentaux. In addition, he is the author of a number of works that caused great interest and polemic with encyclopedists: “The origin of harmony is foreign composers.