Good job for Rameau that Louis XV of France was not Kim Jong-un. In 1733, Rameau’s revolutionary opera, Hippolyte et Aricie, premiered; it poked sharply at the institution of monarchy. Jean-Phillipe Rameau went on to be a highly prolific and successful court composer.
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