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	Louis Couperin - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis Couperin was a French musician of the Baroque period.
		Johann Jakob Froberger was also in Paris in these days; he probably – though not definitely – met Louis Couperin and their styles influenced each other.
		Louis Couperin got his reputation as a great composer mainly from his harpsichord works.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Louis_Couperin (290 words)

	Louis Couperin: Biography - Classic Cat
		Louis was reportedly an accomplished harpsichordist and violinist by 1650 (and was already composing by then), but had no connections whatsoever with any important musicians of the era.
		Couperin's organ music exerted a great influence over the 17th century European composers; it represents the transition from the strict counterpoint in the Titelouze vein to the colorful, concertant organ style introduced by Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers and Nicolas Lebègue, who influenced late Baroque composers such as François Couperin and Nicolas de Grigny.
		Couperin was the first French composer to write for specific registrations and also the first to compose leaping division basses in the style of divisions for the bass viol.
	www.classiccat.net /couperin_l/biography.htm (1200 words)

	AMARCORDES - Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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)

	HOASM: Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		Couperin was the first composer to conceive some pieces for particular organ registrations or colors.
		VIIB: At the Court of Louis XIV
	www.hoasm.org /VIIB/CouperinL.html (293 words)

	Laurent Stewart Review #1
		The program was divided between the works of Louis Couperin and Johann Jacob Froberger, two of the most significant contributors to the harpsichord literature of their period (Couperin died in 1661, Froberger in 1667).
		Couperin and Froberger were contemporaries of Molière and Pascal; the greatest French painter of their time was Nicolas Poussin; as they were reaching the pinnacle of their creative careers, the first great masterpiece of classical French architecture--the palace and gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte--was being built.
		It was Louis Couperin, apparently, who invented the "Prélude," a harpsichord version of the improvisational meanderings with which lutenists were wont to begin their performances.
	www.harpsichord-sd.com /stewart_review1.html (1145 words)

	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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-francois-couperin (749 words)

	AMARCORDES - Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		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)

	Louis Couperin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He and his nephew, François le Grand, were the most renowned members of the Couperin family.
		Johann Jakob Froberger was also in Paris in these days; he probably – though not definitely – met Louis Couperin and their styles influenced each other.
		Only a few organ pieces from him were known until the mid 20th century, when a large manuscript was discovered in England: this book proves that Couperin exerted a great influence on organ music in 17th century Europe.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Couperin (287 words)

	Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		King Louis XIV did all he could to build up the image of France as the leader of Europe and he liked to have a strong say in the arts (he certainly did with opera).
		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.
		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)

	NewOlde.com - Louis Couperin
		Louis Couperin was a known viol player and organist: it was his brother Charles who had an outstanding reputation as a harpsichordist.
		As a further complication of the issue, the organ pieces of 'Louis Couperin' have recently been published, and it has been suggested that the manuscript source of these organ works represents an autograph of Louis Couperin.
		M-A Charpentier, Henry Dumont, Gaspard Le Roux and Louis Couperin.
	www.newolde.com /couperin_louis.htm (671 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)

	Sleeve Notes - Marc Roger Couperin: Livre de Tablature de Clavescin
		As with Louis Couperin, Marc Normand's exact date of birth is unknown but must fall between 1626 and 1633, the years for which a baptismal register is missing at Chaumes.
		Louis Couperin (c1626-1661) had already died, of course, but his brother François I Couperin (c1631-c1710) was much reputed as a harpsichord teacher.
		Couperin's manuscript was probably started some time after 1692, when he was in his early thirties and had already become an established musical figure at court.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67164.html (2010 words)

	Couperin, François (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		François, the nephew of Louis Couperin, was born in Paris on Nov. 10, 1668.
		Couperin introduced the trio sonata to France, infusing this Italian genre with a characteristically French treatment of melody and ornamentation.
		Couperin died on Sept. 12, 1733, in Paris.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Couperin/e1.html (240 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.
		Louis XIV was an excellent dancer and is said to have practised the courante for several hours a day in his youth.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67440.html (4961 words)

	Louis Couperin - Wikipédia
		Louis Couperin est un musicien français né à Chaumes-en-Brie vers 1626 et mort à Paris le 29 août 1661.
		Il est, avec son neveu François le plus illustre membre de la famille Couperin.
		Manuscrit Bauyn, contenant une partie de l'œuvre pour clavecin de Louis Couperin est partiellement disponible en téléchargement (à terme, il le sera complètement).
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Couperin (277 words)

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		Louis Couperin’s preludes may be classified as purely non-metrical as well as non-measured: not only are there no bar lines, but all of the preludes are written in long groups of whole notes, connected in various figurations by long, elegant lines.
		Tilney speculates that Louis Couperin adopted this novel form of notation because conventional notation “must have failed to stimulate his imagination as he improvised.” Interpretation of these preludes has long been a subject of debate among keyboard scholars.
		She agrees with earlier writers that non-measured preludes should “sound rhythmically free and improvisatory,” but goes on to discuss rhythmic realization in terms of motivic unity, scalar passages, and the French tradition of notes inégales: As in measured compositions, short, imitative motives would most likely be executed with the same rhythm in each repeated occurrence.
	www.nd.edu /~srussel2/diss/0323chap2.doc (8810 words)

	Organ Composers: François Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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)

	Review: Guy Oldham plays Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis Couperin (1626-1661) is best known as one the great founders of the French school of harpsichord composers, and as the first of his family to be introduced to Parisian musical life.
		The public performance of roughly a third of Louis Couperin’s surviving organ works is a major event.
		Finally, on 30 September 2003, the l’Oiseau-Lyre edition was released, and Louis Couperin's organ works are finally available for performance and study.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~mudws/reviews/oldham.html (541 words)

	Louis Couperin Biography - famous Louis Couperin Classical collection and Louis Couperin Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Together with his brothers, he is said to have marched the fifteen kilometres to the chateau of Monsieur Chambonnières and there performed one of his own compositions.
		The grand old harpsichordist was so impressed that he persuaded Louis Couperin’s father that the young composer should accompany him to Paris and be presented at the Royal Court.
		Louis Couperin became a full-time musician at court and as a result travelled widely outside Paris.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/236.htm (406 words)

	Louis Couperin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis was then twenty three or twenty four years old and was a simple clerk at a lawyer's office in the provinces.
		Chambonnières immediately complimented Louis Couperin, and asked him and all his companions to sit down at the table; he displayed great kindness to him, and said that such a man was not meant to stay in the provinces, and that he had to come with him to Paris; that Louis Couperin accepted with pleasure.
		This bright and successfull career will be very short: Louis Couperin dies in 1661, at the age of thirty five.
	sgorgue.free.fr /english/louicp_e.html (319 words)

	Couperin, Francois -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Although François Couperin was only 11 when his father, Charles Couperin, died, the wardens of the Church of Saint-Gervais in Paris reserved his father's office of organist for him until he was 18.
		For about 200 years the Couperins were a musical dynasty of composers, performers, and teachers in and around Paris.
		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.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026581?tocId=9026581 (616 words)

	Louis Couperin (v. 1626-1661)
		Très peu de choses sont connues sur Louis Couperin avant l'âge de 23 ans.
		A la Saint-Jacques de 1650 ou 1651, les Couperin (Louis, François et Charles ?), avec quelques amis musiciens donnent une sérénade au château de Chambonnières, pour la fête du saint patron de son locataire, Jacques de Chambonnières.
		Louis Couperin : Pièces de clavecin (édition D. Moroney).
	www.musicologie.org /Biographies/c/couperin_louis.html (1241 words)

	The World of Elizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Louis Couperin (1626-1661) Prélude Allemande la Precieuse Courante Sarabande Passacaille Pièces de clavecin (A minor) E.-Cl. Jacquet de la Guerre (ca.1664-1729) Prélude Allemande Courante Courante Sarabande Gigue Chaconne Pièces de clavecin (A minor).
		Around 1650 Louis Couperin, with his brothers, all natives of the Brie region outside Paris, played their instruments to serenade the local squire, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, himself a musician and harpsichordist who had been knighted by Louis XIV for his accomplishments.
		During much of the reign of Louis XIV, the ceremonial and dramatic music of the French court was dominated by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687); after Lully’s death, some French composers, working mainly in chamber music, began to experiment with new forms recently developed in Italy, such as the instrumental sonata and the dramatic cantata.
	home.olemiss.edu /~mudws/laguerre.html (1626 words)

	Louis Couperin - Wikipedia
		August 1661 in Paris) war ein französischer Komponist, Organist und Geigenspieler.
		Louis Couperin war nach François Couperin der bekannteste seiner Familie und einer der besten Komponisten für Tasteninstumente des 17.
		Drei Jahre später trat Louis als erster seiner Dynastie das Organistenamt an St-Gervais an, das er bis zu seinem Tod begleitete.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Couperin (96 words)

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