Who did the composer of  Les fêtes d'Hébé replaced as the dominant composer of French opera?
Les fêtes d'Hébé Les fêtes d'Hébé, ou Les talens lyriques ("The Festivities of Hebe, or The Lyric Talents") is an "opéra-ballet" in a prologue and three "entrées" (acts) by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. The libretto was written by Antoine Gautier de Montdorge (1707–1768). The work was first performed on 21 May 1739 by the Académie royale de musique at its theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris..
Henri de Bailly Henri de Bailly (died October 1637) was a French composer. Originally a singer in the chapelle royale of Henri IV, he was elevated to "Surintendant de la musique" in 1622 by Louis XIII, and at the same time raised to the nobility.