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A Musical Treat
This is a wonderful collection of Francois Couperin's keyboard music, co-edited by Brahms in the 1880s and republished by Dover in the characteristically attractive format and low price that are that publisher's hallmark.It includes a piece I've loved and wanted to learn ever since I first heard it, perhaps 20 years ago, on a fine 1970's recording of baroque harpsichord music by Sylvia Marlowe on Sine Qua Non. Les Baricades Misterieuses (the preface notes that Couperin's titles were "often eccentric and quaint) is a beautiful, warm, mellow meditation on cycles of fifths and other piquant chord changes B flat.But the volume is a rich compendium with much else in the way of interesting, varied, lovely short pieces.

François Couperin !
François Couperin is one of Frenchs best baroque composer. He is not widly known, but his music is one of the most expressive in that era. This edition contains all the orders from Couperins first too "books" plus the first order of the third "book". Of all the pieces, I think I can quote "Les baricades misterieuses" (the misterious barricades), of the sixth order, which is one of the most popular and enchanting pieces Couperin ever composed.

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Organist to the court of Louis XIV, Couperin left a vast body of works for harpsichord that epitomize the elegance of classical French art and are keystones of the instrument's repertoire. ... Read more

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A careful study of a mysterious composer.
So little factual informaton exists about Francois Couperin that mostbiographers give but a brief sketch of the man's life and concentrate onhis works. Phillippe Beaussant attempts a more complete picture ofCouperin, and the result is a mostly satisfying, educated but (necessarily)speculative account of Couperin's life. Do not expect any drama here. Thebest chapters of the book deal with French baroque society, customs andart. His analysis of much of the music is lightweight, but is certainlyenough to whet one's appetite for the actual stuff. Since reading this bookI have become a devoted fan of Couperin's music. ... Read more

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Includes vocal line, keyboard accompaniment, and figured bass for three songs: Air Serieux [Mars 1697], Air Serieux [Aout 1701], and Air Serieux: Brunete [Decembre 1711]; words and short introduction are in French;includes a frontispiece portrait of Couperin. ... Read more

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PAUL BRUNO LD FRANCOIS COUPERIN Translated from the French by . B. H4NSON THE LYREBIRD PRESS LOUISE B. M. DYER THE RAMPARTS monaco PUBLISHERS NOTE Like Couperin, Paul Brunold was organist at the Church of Saint-Gervais he was also, again like the composer he so much admired, a harpsi chordist, and had expert knowledge he xvas Curator of Old Instruments at the Paris Conserva toire of the instruments history and construction. Shortly before his death in 194 8 he brought me, with a viexv to publication, a collection of notes and observations on Francois Couperin. These brief chapters are now presented, in translation, to mark Paul Brunold s devotion to a master whom he served constantly as a practical musician. My thanks are due to Mr Andre Meyer, of Paris, for his generosity in placing at my disposal three hitherto unpublished portraits of Couperin. L. B. M. D. 100820 T, HE musical talent of the celebrated Couperin family first appeared with the three brothers Louis, Francois and Charles. Their father, Charles Couperin, son of a village notary, lived in Chaumes, a small town in the district of Brie. He has been variously, and somewhat vaguely, described as a marchand and an aubergiste he also owned land and vineyards. But whether he kept a shop or an inn or preferred to be consi dered a landowner is less important than the description of him, in the marriage contract of one of his sons, as an organist. FRANCOIS COUPERIN It is curious to find a musician in a family devoted to small-town commerce. It would be interesting to know who gave Charles Couperin his first music lessons. There have been men tions of an older Couperin who came from distant parts and had a knowledge of music. It may have been he who implanted the taste for music in the family. This imprecise detail links up with the legend, often brought forward and difficult to confirm or deny, that the Couperins were not of French origin. Their Christian names are French enough, but their family name, with the various spellings found in the old documents of the Chateau de Beauvoir, Couprin, Coupryns, Coprin, shows that they were not of local origin. Their early history might well be the same as that of another family in Chaumes, the Forquerays, also described, by Theophile Lhuillier, the historian of the musicians of Brie, as marchands-cabere tiers, and whose name also became famous in musical history. The first Forqueray, according to the family tradition as recounted by Louis Forqueray in his book Les Forqueray Paris, 1910, followed Mary Queen of Scots to France about the year 1648. It is not impossible that the 10 FRANCOIS COUPERIN Forqueray and Couperin families emigrated to France and settled in Brie together. Of the three sons of Charles Couperin men tioned above, Louis was the most talented and left an important contribution to the literature of the harpsichord Francois is described in a manuscript note as a great musician and a great drinker Charles was admired as a composer of harpsichord pieces, none of which are known to have survived. A brief account of Charles Couperin is necessary, however, as he was the father of Francois Couperin-le-Grand. The register of baptisms at Chaumes records that Charles Couperin was baptised on the gth April i638. Musically gifted and about twelve years younger than his brother Louis, he took part in the serenade organised by a group of young musicians as a birthday surprise for Cham bonnieres at his country estate near Chaumes. Titon du Tillet tells, in Le Parnasse Francais, how this visit led to the discovery of the Couperin brothers by Chambonnieres, followed by his Gf Les CEuvres Completes de Louis Couperin, Editions de rOiseau-Lyre. Paris. The volume contains one hundred and thirty pieces, some for Viols, others for the Organ, but mostly for the Harp sichord. i i FRANCOIS GOUPERIN invitation to play in Paris. Charles went to Paris later than his brothers and like them studied with Chambonnieres... ... Read more

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PRINTED MUSIC, #8083 DURAND, TRANSCRIBED BY POUIS DIEMER, 3RD VOLUME, 79 PP, INCLUDES, LES FOLIES FRANCAISES, LE ROSSIGNOL EN AMOUR, LES FASTES DE LA GRANDE ET ANCIENNE MENESTRANDISE, ... Read more

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Title: Francois Couperin. Les Gouts reunis. (book reviews)
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
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Date: June 1, 1994
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The first book in English on the life and works of Couperin le Grand, and possibly the first comprehensive study in any language. ... Read more

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Title: Francois Couperin and 'the Perfection of Music.'(Book review)
Author: Lois Rosow
Publication: Notes (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
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Volume: 62Issue: 3Page: 711(3)

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