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	Le Tombeau de Couperin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Le Tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917.
		While the word-for-word meaning of the title invites the assumption that the suite is a programmatic work, describing what is seen and felt in a visit to the tomb of Couperin, tombeau is actually a musical term popular in an earlier century and meaning a piece written as a memorial.
		The specific Couperin (among a family noted as musicians for about two centuries) that Ravel intended to be evoked, along with the friends, would presumably be François Couperin "the Great" (1668-1733).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Le_Tombeau_de_Couperin (496 words)

	CD Baby: DUO SESOKO: Duo Sesoko
		Prelude by Maurice Ravel from Le Tombeau de Couperin
		Menuet by Maurice Ravel from Le Tombeau de Couperin
		Rigaudon by Maurice Ravel from Le Tombeau de Couperin
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/duosesoko (418 words)

	François Couperin le Grand
		Born in Paris in 1668, the son of Charles Couperin (1638-1679), 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.lichtensteiger.de /couperin01.html (679 words)

	TOMBEAUX for Lute > The E-Library
		The musical genre of tombeau is generally connected with music for the lute of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Of some 60+ surviving pieces, most are intended for the lute or theorbo, 5 for the baroque guitar, 7 for the viola da gamba and 3 for harpsicord.
		The tombeau preeminently comes in two forms, as a slow elegiac allemande grave in 4/4 or as a pavan, a tri-partite renaissance dance already long out of date for the era of tombeaux, but with all the trappings of the allemande (cf.
	www.polyhymnion.org /tombeau (664 words)

	Francois Couperin biography - 8notes.com
		François Couperin (born Paris November 10, 1668 – September 12, 1733 in Paris) was an esteemed French composer in the Baroque style.
		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.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/couperin2.asp (421 words)

	Le Tombeau de Couperin
		In French usage, the phrase " le tombeau deâ may be translated as "in memory of," or "in honor of"; it is used as heading for a piece, or a collection of pieces, by a single composer or by several, written in tribute to a departed masterâ”the equivalent of a posthumous Festschrift, one might say.
		Couperin, called Le Grand, by way of distinguishing him from his various kinsmen who earned respect on a somewhat less elevated level, is revered as the embodiment of the clarity, grace and refinement that are the characteristic features of the French musical tradition.
		When he returned to his unfinished Tombeau de Couperin after his discharge from a military hospital in 1917 he completed the work and inscribed each of its six movements to the memory of one of those friends (or, in one instance, to two of them) who had fallen in wartime service.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=3154 (1119 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)

	JUDD GREENSTEIN, works?
		Ravel had written his own memorial work in 1917, Le Tombeau de Couperin, dedicating each movement to friends who had died in World War I; I turned to this work for its memorial quality, and to the Piano Trio for its musical framework.
		Le Tombeau de Ravel is in four movements, played attaca, with many interconnections across the movements.
		The second, third, and fourth movements are each a response to the first, and are loosely modeled on their respective movements in the Ravel Trio.
	www.juddgreenstein.com /works/tombeau.html (248 words)

	CriticalDance.com - Ballet, Modern Dance and Performance Dance - Reviews - New York City Ballet
		Starting off the afternoon was a elegant performance of Balanchine's "Le Tombeau de Couperin." Set to music by Maurice Ravel, "Le Tombeau de Couperin" is Balanchine's exploration of, and variation on, the geometric patterns in traditional eighteenth-century court dances.
		This particular performance was notable for the highly seasoned cast, all of whom are members of the corps de ballet.
		After "Le Tombeau de Couperin," came a highly energetic and delightfully tongue-in-cheek performance of Balanchine's bravura pas de deux, "Tarantella" danced by Benjamin Millepied and Alexandra Ansanelli.
	www.criticaldance.com /reviews/2003/nycb_030118.html (769 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		The music's air of dignified calm may well be the product of, and a direct reaction to, the composer's traumatizing wartime experiences which, characteristically, he downplays in his correspondence, and the recent death of his mother, to whom he was obsessively attached.
		The first performance of the piano suite was given in 1919 by Marguerite Long, whose late husband, Capt. Joseph de Marliave, an eminent musicologist, received the dedication of Toccata, which because of its entirely pianistic nature is not included in the four-movement orchestral score.
		Ravel's stated aim was "not to present an homage to Couperin, but to French music in general." That pronouncement notwithstanding, he did prepare for his task by transcribing a keyboard forlane, a dance traditionally in 6/8 time, with dotted rhythms, by Couperin himself.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=916 (470 words)

	Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In honor of the fallen soldiers he had cared for, he retitled it Le Tombeau de Couperin (literally, Couperin's Tomb, after François Couperin, a 17th-century composer whom Ravel chose to represent the French nation.
		The work was planned to be premiered immediately in Paris, but a bombardment interfered and caused the performance to be postponed.
		While he was waiting for it to be rescheduled, Ravel could not resist orchestrating four of the movements (he once said ``For me, orchestration is more play than work'').
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /fmg-members/geoff/prognotes/ravel/tombeau.html (311 words)

	Saint Louis Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The first performance of the orchestral version of Le tombeau de Couperin was given in Paris on February 28, 1920, when the Orchestre Pasdeloup played it under the direction of René Baton.
		After passing from fashion during the 19th century, the tombeau tradition was revived in the 20th by Maurice Ravel, whose homage to Couperin remains the most famous modern example.
		Ravel initially conceived Le tombeau de Couperin in 1914 as a suite for piano modeled on the sort of 18th-century dance forms that underlie many of Couperin’s harpsichord pieces.
	www.slso.org /notes/10-28-2004.htm (2786 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Ravel: Boléro - Decca - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		"Le tombeau de Couperin" and "Valses nobles et sentimentale" are orchestrations of major piano works (with some alterations in the tombeau) (there are other pieces on these disks that also began as piano works) that are probably more well known to the general public as orchestral works.
		The Tomb of Couperin is also a funereal piece but its beauty lies in its imitation of Baroque music.
		Le Tombeau de Couperin is a particular favourite.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-B00002MXMX-locale-us.html (1242 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of François Couperin
		On almost every Sunday Couperin and colleagues gave chamber concerts for the king, for which he comp.
		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 (385 words)

	RAVEL: Miroirs; Gaspard de la Nuit; Le Tombeau de Couperin - David Korevaar, piano - MSR
		Korevaar is able to manage a sec tonal palette for the neo-classic Le Tombeau de Couperin, whose Forlane evinces that same tinge of melancholy we hear in Mother Goose.
		The staccatos and passing grace notes in the wistful Menuet are rounded and crisp.
		The liquid speed which Korevaar elicits makes the opening movement of Gaspard de la Nuit, Ondine, whose "watery silken robes" melt when the mortal narrator rejects her offer to share her palace.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=857 (438 words)

	François Couperin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		François Couperin (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733) was an esteemed French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
		He was taught by his father Charles Couperin and by Jacques Thomelin.
		In 1685 he became the organist at the church Saint-Gervais, Paris, a post he would pass on to his cousin Nicolas Couperin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Couperin (591 words)

	Le Tombeau De Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Together with Le tombeau as promised by the title, this volume includes the original piano versions of Ma Mère l'Oye, all eight Valses nobles et sentimentales, the 1913 Prélude, the two pieces À la manière de (Chabrier and Borodin), and the composer's own piano transcription of La Valse.
		The only piano work absent from both volumes is the Habanera, probably because that work is almost invariably performed by two pianists, although I own a transcription for a single player.
		Many of the works in this volume are quite accessible to pianists of intermediate skill, if they are sufficiently motivated by a love of the music of Ravel, and even in Le tombeau, a work of legendary difficulty, the exquisite Menuet, should prove playable by all but beginners.
	www.grainger.de /dbe/sbs/coup003.html (167 words)

	Maurice Ravel - Sting Quartet, Introduction and Allegro, Le Tombeau de Couperin etc... [JQ]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		ASV have assembled here a nice, varied selection of music by Ravel and one which contains two of the finest works in the twentieth century chamber music repertoire.
		Ravel’s orchestral output is represented by the suite, Le Tombeau de Couperin.
		This began life in 1917 as a six-movement work for piano and the orchestration of four of the movements was done two years later.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Nov02/ASV_Ravel.htm (789 words)

	Le Tombeau de Liberace
		His Le Tombeau de Liberace was commissioned in 1995 by the London Sinfonietta and received its world premiere on April 11, 1996 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Duquesne Contemporary Music Ensemble directed by David Stock, with Vahan Sarkassian performing the piano part.
		The title, Le Tombeau de Liberace (literally, "At the Tomb of Liberace"), is taken from a French phrase signifying an act of homage.
		Starting from the vernacular idiom, I have composed Le Tombeau de Liberace as a meditation on the American sublime: a lexicon of forbidden music.
	www.infopoint.com /fun/music/cabrillo.old/prognotes/tombeau.html (660 words)

	Le Tombeau de Couperin (Ravel) - Wikipédia
		Le Tombeau de Couperin est une œuvre pour piano de Maurice Ravel, qui en fit secondairement une orchestration.
		Le compositeur honore ainsi François Couperin mais aussi toute la musique baroque de ce siècle.
		Le style de ces pièces est plutôt dépouillé par rapport à l'œuvre globale du compositeur.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Le_Tombeau_de_Couperin (243 words)

	Amazon.com: Le Tombeau de Couperin and Other Works for Solo Piano: Books: Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Le Tombeau de Couperin and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in Full Score by Maurice Ravel
		This superb compilation contains Ma mère l’oye [Mother Goose], Valse nobles et sentimentales, Le tombeau de Couperin: Suite pour piano, and La Valse as well as three shorter pieces: Prèlude, A la manière de Borodin (Valse) and A la manière de Emmanuel Chabrier.
		If you want fingerings and performance suggestions for Le Tombeau de Couperin, I would suggest Nancy Bricard's edition from Alfred.
	www.amazon.com /Tombeau-Couperin-Other-Works-Piano/dp/048629806X (1633 words)

	Le Tombeau de Couperin and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in Full Score:Maurice Ravel:0486418987:eCampus.com
		Le Tombeau de Couperin and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in Full Score:Maurice Ravel:0486418987:eCampus.com
		Influenced by the elegant 18th-century harpsichord works of Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti, Le Tombeau de Couperin consists of "Prelude," "Forlane," "Menuet," and "Rigaudon." The uninterrupted eight waltzes of Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, orchestrated in 1912 to serve as music for a ballet, abound with lilting rhythms and unexpected harmonic subtleties.
		This volume of two inspired works will be valued additions to the libraries of musicians, music lovers, and admirers of Ravel.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0486418987 (214 words)

	INKPOT CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: Singapore Symphony Orchestra 18th January 1997
		Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937) Le tombeau de Couperin (1919)
		Too often are conductors thought of as dour stick-wavers whose only roles are guiding the bows and taking the bows; here we have a rare example of a musician who obviously understands that music is something we play.
		Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin is an interesting suite of traditional dance forms that marries Impressionism with the age-old spirit of the danse.
	inkpot.com /concert/sso970118.html (1087 words)

	David Korevaar - Discography
		The neoclassical Le tombeau de Couperin is an escape into the past by a composer deeply affected by the devastation of World War I. Korevaar's reading is suitably understated, beautifully balanced...
		Two of the happy results of this new recognition of French music are to be heard on this Centaur CD: the Piano Quartets by Saint-Saëns (in B-flat major) and his younger contemporary Vincent d'Indy (in A minor).
		The beauty of his sounds, his control of the triple pianissimo to the triple forte, and his ability to comprehend the totality of each piece and each musical line make him a marvel to hear.
	www.davidkorevaar.com /albums.shtml (1427 words)

	New York City Ballet - Serenade, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Pavane, Thou Swell
		Le Tombeau de Couperin was presented in the second act.
		Seeing this ballet was a good way to get a sense of how Vintage dances were an intermediary in the evolution from courtly ballet to modern ballroom partner dance.
		Some of the patterns in Tombeau could easily have been traditional social patterns (many Vintage dances are sequence dances done in groups similar to square dancing), and some of the patterns were balletic riffs on such social patterns.
	www.exploredance.com /nycb12603.html (955 words)

	Madeleine de Valmalète: Rediscovered Master, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		Le Tombeau de Couperin (1st Recording): Forlane (Ravel)
		Le Tombeau de Couperin (1st Recording): Menuet (Ravel)
		Le Tombeau de Couperin (1st Recording): Toccata (Ravel)
	www.emusic.com /album/10957/10957958.html (214 words)

	RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le tombeau de Couperin; Mother Goose Suite; The Enchanted Flute; Piece en forme ...
		RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le tombeau de Couperin; Mother Goose Suite; The Enchanted Flute; Piece en forme de habanera - Windscape wind quintet - MSR Classics
		For example, I have little interest in hearing the piano version of Le tombeau de Couperin again, so perfectly appropriate is this woodwind version.
		The Mother Goose Suite is the other major item here, and although the two-piano version disced by Martha Argerich and Pletnev on an SACD - is a knockout, the woodwind version is equally captivating.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=2202 (391 words)

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