![]() He presented his new system of numbered musical notation to the Académie des Sciences but, although ingenious and compatible with typography, the system was rejected. In 1742, he moved to Paris with the intention of becoming a musician and composer. During this time he earned money through secretarial, teaching and musical jobs. She later became his lover, but she also provided him with the education of a nobleman by sending him to a good Catholic school, where Rousseau became familiar with Latin and the dramatic arts, in addition to studying Aristotle. In 1728, at the age of 16, Rousseau left Geneva for Annecy in south-eastern France, where he met Françoise-Louise de Warens, a French Catholic baroness. For several years as a youth, he was apprenticed to a notary and then to an engraver. His youthful experiences of corporal punishment at the hands of the pastor's sister developed in later life into a predilection for masochism and exhibitionism. ![]() His childhood education consisted solely of reading the Plutarch's "Lives" and Calvinist sermons in a public garden. His only sibling, an older brother, ran away from home when Rousseau was still a child. His father, Isaac Rousseau, a failed watchmaker, abandoned him in 1722 (when he was just 10 years old) to avoid imprisonment, after which time Rousseau was cared for by an uncle who sent him to study in the village of Bosey. His mother, Suzanne Bernard, died just nine days after his birth from birth complications. Rousseau was born on 28 June 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland (although he spent most of his life in France, he always described himself as a citizen of Geneva). He also made important contributions to music, both as a theorist and as a composer. He is considered to have invented modern autobiography and his novel "Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse" was one of the best-selling fictional works of the 18th Century (and was important to the development of Romanticism). A brilliant, undisciplined and unconventional thinker throughout his colorful life, his views on Philosophy of Education and on religion were equally controversial but nevertheless influential. ![]() His Political Philosophy, particularly his formulation of social contract theory (or Contractarianism), strongly influenced the French Revolution and the development of Liberal, Conservative and Socialist theory. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a French philosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. (Pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1753) I hope you enjoy the crunchiness in that intimidating introduction and the new patterned effects! This has been one of the most enjoyable videos to create in a long time □ For any organists, excuse the format (with the 3rd hand “pedals” and automatic registration), and a big thanks to my good organist friend for his guidance and advice.By Individual Philosopher > Jean-Jacques Rousseau ![]() Written approximately 300 years ago, a piece as grand as this arguably wasn’t to be written until the next century with the grand symphonies of the romantic period, it’s quite easy to see how Bach was well ahead of his time and is, to this day, considered the grandfather of all modern music. Here’s something a little bit different – Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, perhaps the most magical experience you can have in world of music, if you’ve never just closed your eyes and let Bach take you along for the journey, you are missing out. Here’s what Rousseau has to say about this piece (but he fails to mention where the 3 rd arm comes from):
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