Lully's enormously successful operas and ballets set the stage for the operas that followed, some four decades later, by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

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On a recent Saturday morning in Karen and Peter Flint's spacious barn in the Brandywine Valley, nine harpsichord students and assorted auditors were listening intently as harpsichord virtuoso Arthur Haas, a professor at SUNY Stony Brook, explained the subtleties inherent in performing the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).

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