Jean-Philippe Rameau

September 25, 1683 – September 12, 1764

France

Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was a French Baroque composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer of his time for the harpsichord, alongside François Couperin.