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	AMARCORDES - Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Couperin's skill on the harpsichord, the organ and bowed instruments can be judged from the considerable demands of his music and from the major appointments he later received.
		Couperin was the first to write for particular organ registrations, as one might write for particular chamber music combinations: five pieces are for the jeu de tierce, with or without a slow tremulant, and three for the Cromorne.
		Couperin's invention did not concern itself with the intellectual conceits of ricercares; indeed, he often seems to repudiate rather than to strive for the disciplines of the strict style.
	www.amarcordes.ch /compositeurs/couperin_louis_grove.htm (2771 words)

	François Couperin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Couperin was first taught by his father and in 1685 became organist at Saint Gervais, Paris, a post he passed on to his cousin Nicolas Couperin.
		In 1717, Couperin became the court organist and composer, and gave weekly "concerts" for King Louis XIV.
		Couperin acknowledged his debt to Corelli, whose trio sonata form Couperin introduced to French music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fran%E7ois_Couperin (410 words)

	AMARCORDES - Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Couperin’s admiration for the Italian style was eventually expressed in overt terms in his Apothéose de Corelli of 1724, but a much earlier ambition, sustained throughout his life, was to unite the complementary strengths of the Italian and French styles.
		Couperin’s appointment as an organiste du roi (26 December 1693), with a salary of 600 livres for the quarter, was perhaps the most important event of his career, for it opened up opportunities and emoluments available nowhere else.
		Couperin’s use of texture shows his keen awareness of the particular sonorities of the harpsichords produced by French workshops of this period: his second book is remarkable for the number of pieces (see ordre no.7) using only the lower half of the keyboard, which was specially full and sonorous on French instruments.
	www.amarcordes.ch /compositeurs/couperin_grove.htm (11443 words)

	Couperin, Francois. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Couperin also composed much religious and chamber music and works for the organ.
		In 1693, Couperin was chosen by Louis XIV as one of the organists of the royal chapel, and later he was made music master of the royal family and harpsichordist at the royal court.
		The Couperin line of musicians had begun with three brothers—Louis (c.1626–1661), an organist, violinist, and composer of harpsichord suites, which are characterized by a vigorous, frequently dissonant style; François (c.1631–c.1710), a harpsichordist and violinist; and Charles (1638–79), an organist, the father of Couperin le Grand.
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	Francois Couperin Biography / Biography of Francois Couperin Main Biography
		Couperin prospered at court, being appointed master of music for the royal children in 1694 and ennobled in 1696.
		Couperin's harpsichord music is marked by a very elegant style and reflects the urbane, sophisticated quality of courtly and intellectual life as it was experienced in the last years of the reign of Louis XIV.
		Couperin arranged his harpsichord music into dance suites, with faintly suggestive or arcanely humorous titles; these character pieces represent the height of the cultured taste of the 18th-century connoisseur.
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	François Couperin (Le Grand): a biographical note
		François Couperin was born in Paris in 1668, the son of Charles Couperin (1638-79), the organist St Gervais in Paris.
		Couperin's interest in the Italian style, as represented by Carissimi and distilled by Charpentier, influenced his sacred vocal music, particularly his motets, versets and leçons de ténèbres.
		Early in the century Le Cerf described Couperin as a 'dedicated servant of Italy'; but Couperin also epitomized - by his playing, his pièces de clavecin, and his place in French society - all that was admirable in the French classical tradition.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxcoup.html (532 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Orders, orders
		Although the family origins were rustic (Couperin's great-grandfather was a farmer in Brie as well as a music teacher), the Couperins became well-known at the court of Louis XIV, holding posts as organist of the Chambre du Roi and, in François's case, also teaching harpsichord to the dauphin and other royal children.
		Couperin's music is tinged with melancholy - perhaps due to his declining health, which seems to have bothered him for the last 20 years of his life, or perhaps brought on by the disappearance of his son, who disowned his parents (we do not know why).
		Couperin is a composer whose work pianists and music-lovers should know and understand, not just for its importance in the history of keyboard music, but for sheer pleasure and delight.
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	François Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		François Couperin (Paris November 10, 1668 - Paris September 12, 1733) was an esteemed French composer in the Baroque style.
		For many years Couperin was organist at the church of Saint Gervais, Paris.
		In1717, Couperin became the court organist and composer, and gave weekly ' concerts ' forKing Louis XIV.
	www.therfcc.org /fran%E7ois-couperin-89254.html (331 words)

	Couperin, François (le grand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		François Couperin, known as le grand to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name, was the most distinguished of a numerous family of French musicians, officially succeeding his uncle and father as organist of the Paris church of St. Gervais when he was eighteen.
		The surviving Leçons de ténèbres are possibly the best example of this form of composition, the first of the three for soprano solo and continuo and the third for two sopranos, settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for the Holy Week liturgy.
		Couperin's compositions for the harpsichord occupy a very important position in French music.
	www.naxos.com /composer/couperin.htm (212 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The most famous member of a family of excellent French musicians, Couperin was known as le grand to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name.
		Couperin was greatly admired by Johann Sebastian Bach who arranged one of his trios for the organ.
		Couperin is best known for his 27 richly varied harpsichord suites or "odres", most of which were published between 1713 and 1730, and his famous text-book "L’art de toucher le clavecin" (The Art of Playing the Harpsichord).
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/couperin.html (206 words)

	Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Louis Couperin (c.1626-1661) wrote harpsichord music in a new style, based on dance rhythms, but François Couperin, known as Couperin le Grand, is the most notable family member.
		Couperin was the first composer to write pieces expressly for two manuals.
		However, Couperin criticised the excessive use of left hand arpeggios which he regarded as too Italian, even though he had himself written a set of sonatas in the Italian style in 1692.
	www.duckmusic.free-online.co.uk /alevel/couperin.htm (1160 words)

	Couperin, François: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Also known as "le Grand" to distinguish him from his larger family of musicians, François Couperin became organist of Saint-Gervais in the year of Bach's birth and advanced to the royal chapel of Louis XIV in 1693, eight years later.
		In 1701 Couperin was promoted to chamber musician and music master to the royal family.
		While Couperin did compose motets and other sacred music for voices, he bequeathed a superior repertory for the harpsichord; his Pièces de clavecin (1713-30) and L'art de toucher le clavecin (1717) are monuments of harpsichord literature and technique.
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	François Couperin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		the Great, to distinguish him from the other talented members of the (French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733)) Couperin family, due to his immense virtuosity on the organ and the (A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots) harpsichord.
		Couperin was first taught by his father and in 1685 became (A person who plays an organ) organist at Saint Gervais, Paris, a post he passed on to his cousin Nicolas Couperin.
		Couperin acknowledged his debt to (Click link for more info and facts about Corelli) Corelli, whose (Click link for more info and facts about trio sonata) trio sonata form Couperin introduced to French music.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/fran%e7ois_couperin.htm (455 words)

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		Ainsi de la généalogie des Couperin comme celle des Bach: la modestie des ancêtres y prépare l'assimilation patiente et bien assurée des règles de la composition, qui font alors partie du quotidien, du bien-savoir élémentaire, comme on hérite de la sapience des saisons dans les métiers de la terre.
		Couperin eut donc en eux des élèves attentifs, capables de comprendre et sachant lui manifester estime et admiration.
		Ainsi, Couperin apparaît bien comme l'un des grands maîtres du clavier en ce siècle qui en connut beaucoup, pour son art unique de peindre en quelques soupirs une palette d'émotions entrelacées.
	membres.lycos.fr /musiqueclassique/couperin.htm (1695 words)

	Baroque Music - Composers
		French composer, harpsichordist, and organist, the most distinguished of his family, known as 'Couperin le Grand' because of his prowess as an organist.
		These are in the form of suites and may have been intented for the harpsichord, of which he he was a virtuoso, but were probably performed on violin, viol, oboe, bassoon, and harpsichord.
		Couperin was greatly influenced by Corelli and introduced into France the Italian's trio-sonata form, himself publishing in 1726 Les Nations, a set of 4 suites for 2 violins and harpsichord.
	baroque-music.com /frames/info/couperin.shtml (338 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of François Couperin
		Couperin, François (b Paris, 1668; d Paris, 1733).
		These are in the form of suites and may have been intended for the hpd., of which he was a virtuoso, but were probably perf.
		Couperin was greatly influenced by Corelli and introduced into Fr.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/couperin.html (394 words)

	Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Louis Couperin was a French musician of the baroque period.
		He was born in Chaumes en Brie near Paris probablyin 1626 and he died in Paris in 1661.
		He was the most renowned member of the Couperin family, together with hisnephew, François le Grand.
	www.therfcc.org /louis-couperin-94906.html (239 words)

	HOASM: François Couperin
		Few details of Couperin's early life are known; it is likely that his early musical instruction came from his father and perhaps also from Louis.
		His salary, at 600 livres, represented an important social and economic advance for Couperin; soon he was also tutoring the royal family in harpsichord, including the Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy, and others.
		During the next two decades Couperin established himself as one of the leading harpsichordists of his day; he also composed church and chamber music during the king's final years.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIB/CouperinF.html (508 words)

	HOASM: Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1653 Louis acquired the post of organist at St. Gervais in Paris; this position was held by members of the Couperin family until 1826.
		He played treble viol and, according to one 18th-century scholar, organ in the French royal chapel, played in the productions of several ballets, and was in contact with many notables of his time, including Froberger.
		Couperin was the first composer to conceive some pieces for particular organ registrations or colors.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIB/CouperinL.html (293 words)

	Encyclopedia: FranÃ§ois Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A harpsichord is the general term for a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument nowadays called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet.
		Le Tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917.
		Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 (O.S.) – July 28, 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period, and is universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fran%c3%a7ois-Couperin (1118 words)

	Couperin Family Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Couperin Family - Family tree and brief profiles of family members, nearly all of whom served as organist at Ste-Gervais in Paris.
		Couperin Family Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
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	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_Couperin_Family.html (1846 words)

	ON CLASSICAL. François Couperin biography
		In 1693 Francois Couperin became organist at the Royal Chapel in Versailles, and in 1717 he secured the post of harpsichordist in the "musique de chambre", a position which Couperin passed on to his daughter Marguerite-Antoinette (only one of his three children that became a professional musician) in 1730.
		Couperin's chamber works also include the "Concerts Royaux and Nouveaux Concerts" (written for king Louis XIV), "Pièces de Violes" (published at the age of sixty-one in 1728), and vocal chamber music (the interest for amorous and convivial songs soon developed in France during the seventeenth century).
		Couperin's mode of writing harpsichord music is very peculiar: it was in constant aim to set down the music with the greatest possible fulness exactly as he played it on his instrument.
	www.kunstderfuge.com /bios/couperin.html (662 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Couperin: Keyboard Music - 1
		Chambonnières straightaway complimented Louis Couperin, invited him and all his companions to sit at table, and displayed much friendliness towards him, telling him that such a man as he was not meant to remain in the provinces, and that he must without fail accompany him to Paris.
		Upon the death of Thomelin in 1693, Couperin was chosen by Louis XIV himself as one of four organists at the Royal Chapel.
		It is thought that Bach and Couperin at one time corresponded (they certainly never met, as both of them stayed in a relatively small area all their lives), but evidently their letters ended up as jam-pot covers (or so the story goes!) and thus were lost forever.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67440.html (4961 words)

	Couperin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Couperin family was the most prolific in the whole of French musical history.
		Very active during the baroque era, they originated from Chaumes en Brie, a little town some 30 miles east of Paris in the modern (départment of Seine-et-Marne).
		The most gifted and illustrious among them were Louis Couperin and François Couperin the Great, the former's nephew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Couperin (117 words)

	Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was born in Chaumes Brie near Paris probably in 1626 and he died in Paris in 1661.
		He was the most renowned member of Couperin family together with his nephew François le Grand.
		Louis Couperin got his reputation as a composer mainly from his harpsichord works.
	www.freeglossary.com /Louis_Couperin (388 words)

	Organ Composers: François Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A renowned French composer, harpsichordist and organist, Couperin's earliest training was under his father, Charles.
		Couperin became organist at St. Gervais, Paris in 1685-a post he held until his death.
		They were the parents of two sons and two daughters, one of which became the first female clavenist to the King.
	www.byu.edu /music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/couperin.html (198 words)

	François Couperin le Grand (one)
		Born in Paris in 1668, the son of Charles Couperin (1638-1679), the organist St Gervais in Paris.
		He made use of many significant baroque compositional techniques such as the basso continuo, in which the upper (melody) and bass voices are most important.
		Ever the individualist, Couperin chose to group his pieces into ordres rather than suites, and relied much less on dance movements than his contemporaries, preferring the freer and more evocative pièces de caractère.
	www.lichtensteiger.de /couperin01.html (679 words)

	Louis Couperin -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		French composer, organist, and harpsichordist, the first major member of the Couperin dynasty of musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Couperin's father, a merchant and small landowner in Chaumes-en-Brie, France, was also the organist of the local abbey church, and Louis and his two younger brothers, François (c.
		Their name is especially linked to the church of St-Gervais, where the post of organist was held by a member of the Couperin family for 173 years.
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