Previous posts for September 25th are here: Jean-Philippe Rameau; Glenn Gould (2019) and Dmitri Shostakovich (2020)
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Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was an important composer and music theorist.
A House Divided
His first opera caused a great stir and was fiercely attacked by the supporters of Lully's style of music for its revolutionary use of harmony. The two camps, the so-called Lullyistes and the Rameauneurs, fought a pamphlet war over the issue for the rest of the decade. --excerpted from Wikipedia
The Lullyistes and the Rameauneurs
Had split the upper crust;
The pamphleteers faced raconteurs
With parry and with thrust,
And neophytes met connoisseurs
With mutual distrust.
It’s thus Parisian pamphlet wars
Engage the public press,
Until the modish topic bores
The surfeited noblesse,
Who then return to cards and whores
And sensual excess.
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