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His Aunt Suzanne was passionate about music and heavily influenced Rousseau's interest in music. “Though my taste, or rather passion, for music, did not show itself until a considerable time after, I am fully persuaded it is to her I am indebted for it ” Rousseau took formal instruction in music at the house of Francoise-Louise de Warens. She housed Rousseau on and off for about 13 years, giving him jobs and responsibilities. In 1742, Rousseau developed a system of musical notation that was compatible with typography and numbered. He presented his invention to the Academie Des Sciences, but they rejected it, praising his efforts and pushing him to try again. In 1743, Rousseau wrote his first opera, Les Muses Galantes, which was first preformed in 1745. In 1952, an Italian opera group arrived in Paris to perform works of opera buffa, causing the public to split over support for the new Italian opera and support for the traditional French opera. Rousseau and Jean-Philippe Rameau argued over the causes for superiority of Italian music over French. Rousseau argued that Italian music was superior based on the principle that melody must have priority over harmony. Rameau argued that Italian music was superior based on the principle that harmony must have priority over melody. Rousseau's plead for melody introduced the idea that in art, the free expression of a creative person is more important than the strict adherence to traditional rules and procedures. This is now known today as a characteristic of Romanticism. Rousseau argued for musical freedom, and changed people's attitudes towards music. His works were acknowledged by composers such as Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After composing his final opera, Le devin du village, The Village Soothsayer, in 1752, Rousseau felt he could not go on working for the theater because he was a moralist who had decided to break from worldly values.

Works:


 * Les Muses Galantes (1743)
 * Le Devin du village (1752)


 * La Decouverte du Nouveau Monde(1741)
 * Les Fetes de Ramire (1745)
 * Iphis et Anaxorete (1740)
 * Les Muses Galantes (1745)
 * Symphonie à Cors de Chasse (1751)
 * Air de Cloches
 * Les Consolations des Miseres de Ma Vie (1781)
 * Chansons de Bataille (1753)
 * Le Printemps de Vivaldi