known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family. Couperin was born in...
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Le Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements...
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Louis Couperin and his nephew, François Couperin le grand, are the best known members of the family. The earliest mention of the name Couperin is from...
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Louis Couperin (French: [lwi kupʁɛ̃]; c. 1626 – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to...
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Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1979. Couperin is named for the French composer François Couperin, who lived from 1688 to 1733. Couperin is in the highlands north...
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Couperin Bay (72°8′S 74°22′W / 72.133°S 74.367°W / -72.133; -74.367) is a bay on the south coast of Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island, between Perce...
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Gervais-François Couperin (22 May 1759 – 11 March 1826) was a representative of the famous Couperin family of composers and organists. He studied with...
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Céleste-Thérèse Couperin (1792 or 1793 — 14 February 1860) was a French musician, primarily remembered as the last descendant of the famous Couperin family of...
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in Paris. The organists of the church included Louis Couperin and his nephew François Couperin, two of the most celebrated composers and musicians of...
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COUPERIN (Consortium unifié des établissements universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques) (English: Unified Consortium of...
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Orchestra after Keyboard Pieces by Couperin, Op. 86 (German: Divertimento aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin für kleines Orchester) is an orchestral...
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Pierre-Louis Couperin (14 March 1755 – 10 October 1789) was a French organist and composer, a member of the famous Couperin dynasty of composer-organists...
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The following is a complete list of compositions by François Couperin. L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin (1716), a didactic treatise that includes eight Préludes...
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Marie-Anne Couperin was a 17th-century French organist and harpsichordist and a member of the musically prominent Couperin family, which included generations...
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This article presents a list of compositions by Louis Couperin. Couperin's harpsichord music was catalogued by musicologist Bruce Gustafson. The same numbering...
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renowned composers of this period include Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Michel-Richard Delalande, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marin Marais, all of...
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composers included Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and François Couperin. The Conservatoire de Musique de Paris was founded in 1795. By 1870, Paris...
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Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin, Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Dieterich Buxtehude...
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three vocal pieces composed in 1714 by François Couperin for the Abbaye royale de Longchamp. Couperin's Leçons de ténèbres use the Latin text of the Old...
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Dance Suite from Keyboard Pieces by François Couperin (Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin), TrV 245 was composed by Richard Strauss in...
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Concert royal; English: Royal Concerts) are chamber music suites by François Couperin written for the court of Louis XIV. Each consists of a prelude and a succession...
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Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin (19 September 1705 – c. 1778) was a French harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique...
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Armand-Louis Couperin (25 February 1727 – 2 February 1789) was a French composer, organist, and harpsichordist of the late Baroque and early Classical...
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form, and his contemporaries, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières and Louis Couperin popularized the rondo form in France in the 17th century. These composers...
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Le Tombeau de Couperin is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Ravel's eponymous orchestral music. The ballet features a cast of sixteen divided...
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Marguerite-Louise Couperin (1675/76 or 1678/79 in Paris – 1728 in Versailles) was a French soprano singer and harpsichordist, who came from the musically...
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(Gesualdo), settings by Gesualdo (1611) Leçons de ténèbres (Couperin), settings by Couperin (1714) Sept répons des ténèbres, settings by Poulenc (1961)...
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d'Anglebert (1629–1691) Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601–1672) Louis Couperin (c.1626–1661) Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749) Charles Dieupart (1667–1740)...
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wartime works is Le tombeau de Couperin, composed between 1914 and 1917. The suite celebrates the tradition of François Couperin, the 18th-century French composer;...
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Sebastian Bach. The French clavecinists, especially Louis Couperin and his nephew François Couperin, used a variant of the form—the passacaille en rondeau—with...
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