Rameau

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

JEAN PHILIPPE, 25, 1683. At 18 he went to Milan, but soon returned to France , to Paris, Lille, acted as organist to the cathedral, and and Clermont in Auvergne. Here he wrote his "Treatise (1722). Removing to Paris, he pub- Harmony" monic Generation" (173 lished "Modern System " (1726); "Har- Reflections " (1752). In 1733, at the mature age Rov on (1737), and "Modern of 50, he produced his first legrin. It created a great sensation. to of which was written by the Abbé Pelopera, "Hippolyte and Aricie," the libret- Rameau's best opera was "Castor and Pollux," produced at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1737. Between ballets, as well as numerous harpsichord 1733 and 1760 he composed 21 operas and pieces. Louis XV. created for him the granted him letters of nobility, office of composer of chamber music, named him a Chevalier de St. Mic Rameau died Sept. 12, 1764. , and Michel. OUIDA. RAMÉE, LOUISE DE LA. See several Egyptian monarchs; the name ( RAMESES , or RAMSES, the name of signifies "born of the sun," cent sun." The family is supposed to have been of Theban sun," or the "nasbeen descended from one of the later ban origin, and to have queens of the 18th dynasty. According to the Roman authors Troy was taken in the reign of Rameses II. He is the supposed Sesostris of most authors, and his sarcophagus and mummy were found in Egypt in 1890. Rameses III. was the chief of the 20th dynasty, the Rhampsinitus of Herodotus, called Meriamoun, or beloved of Ammon, who defeated the Philistines, the Mashuash, and the Libyans, carrying on important wars from the 5th to the 12th year of his reign; he also made conquests in the 16th, and seems to have reigned 55 more years. He founded the magnificent pile of edi- RAMESES II. fices of Medinat Habu, embellished Luxo, Gurnah, and other parts of Egypt. In 1889 the sarcophagus and mummies of himself and his queen were discovered in Egypt in a marvelous state of preservation. Rameses IV. reigned a short time and performed no distinguished actions. Rameses V., of whom inscriptions are found in Silsilis. Rameses VI., whose tomb at the Biban-El-Meluk contains some astronomical records, from which the date of his reign has been calculated at 1240 b. c. Rameses VII. VIII., IX., X., and XI., undistinguished monarchs. Rameses XII., who reigned above 33 years, in whose reign the statue of the god Chons was sent from Egypt to the land of the Bakhten to cure a princess of the royal family of that court with which Rameses had contracted an alliance. Rameses XIII. was an important monarch. Rameses is also the name of one of the fortresses or treasure cities built by the Hebrews during their residence in Egypt.