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Cessac , Catherine Versailles: Centre de Musique Baroque , , I agree that the time lapse between Couperin's time and ours obscures much, but I would venture that more than history stands in our way. Sometimes the obfuscation seems deliberate. Faber , ; Citron , Pierre , Couperin Bourges: Land , Alexandra Portland: The estate gives the entire contents of the Couperin lodgings — home also to his wife Marie-Anne Ansault and his daughter Marguerite-Antoinette.

While this does raise the possibility that some contents of the library belonged to other members of the family, three factors suggest otherwise. Moroney suggests that Couperin was self-conscious about his lack of education hence the defensive tone of some of his writings , which raises the possibility that his extensive library was meant, in some way, to shore up a less than thorough education. Other women to take up similarly rigorous reading lists included the duchesse du Maine and Madame de Montpensier.

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Malebranche follows this statement with a quotation from La Rochefoucauld: Wetstein , , 1 — 2. Yale University Press , , 71 — Chize , , 7. Translated from the French of Monsieur de Vaugelas … London: Cooper[, ] , 2.

Le Gras , Chicago University Press , , University of Wisconsin Press , , — Prault, , no page numbers. Ribou , , Smollett , Tobias , ed. Jr and Chilton , Leslie Athens: University of Georgia Press , , Kuizenga , Donna Chicago: University of Chicago Press , Guillimin , , Giard , , 39 — Cave , Terrence Oxford: Oxford University Press , , Michallet , , Thierry , , Cornell University Press , , Halford , Margery New York: Alfred Music Publishing , , Future research may yield fruitful connections between these two performance traditions.

University of Chicago Press , , 4. It was republished multiple times during Couperin's lifetime, both in complete works and as a stand-alone play between and Tracing its performance is more difficult. Barbin , , Le Mercier et Saillant , , Picard , , Quoted and translated in Couperin, L'art de toucher le clavecin , ed. Meanwhile, the boy was taken care of and taught by organist Jacques-Denis Thomelin, who served both at the court and at the famous church of St Jacques-de-la-Boucherie. According to a biography by Evrard Titon du Tillet, Thomelin treated the boy extremely well and became "a second father" to him.

Francois's talent must have manifested itself quite early, since already by the church council agreed to provide him with a regular salary even though he had no formal contract.

Couperin's mother Marie nee Guerin died in , but otherwise his life and career were accompanied by good fortune. In he married one Marie-Anne Ansault, daughter of a prosperous well-connected family. The next year saw the publication of Couperin's Pieces d'orgue , a collection of organ masses that was praised by Delalande who may have assisted with both composition and publication. In three more years Couperin succeeded his former teacher Thomelin at the court. The new appointment was extremely prestigious and brought Couperin in contact with some of the finest composers of his time, as well as numerous members of the aristocracy.

His earliest chamber music dates from around that time. The numerous duties Couperin carried out at the court were accompanied by duties as organist at Saint Gervais, and also by the composition and publication of new music. He obtained a year royal privilege to publish in and used it immediately to issue the first volume out of four of his harpsichord works, Pieces de clavecin.

A harpsichord playing manual followed in , as well as other collections of keyboard and chamber music. In Couperin succeeded one of his most eminent colleagues, Jean-Baptiste-Henry d'Anglebert, as ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin , one of the highest possible appointments for a court musician. However, his involvement in the musical activities at the court may have lessened after Louis XIV's death in Couperin's health declined steadily throughout the s.

The services of a cousin were required by at Saint Gervais, and in Couperin's position as court harpsichordist was taken up by his daughter Marguerite-Antoinette. Couperin's final publications were Pieces de violes and the fourth volume of harpsichord pieces The composer died in The building where Couperin and his family lived since still stands and is located at the corner of the rue Radziwill and the rue des Petits Champs. The composer was survived by at least three of his children: Marguerite-Antoinette, who continued working as court harpsichordist until , Marie-Madeleine Marie-Cecile , who became a nun and may have worked as organist at the Maubuisson Abbey, and Francois-Laurent, who according to contemporary sources left the family after Francois died.

Couperin acknowledged his debt to the Italian composer Corelli. He introduced Corelli's trio sonata form to France. In it he blended the Italian and French styles of music in a set of pieces which he called Les gouts reunis "Styles Reunited". His most famous book, L'art de toucher le clavecin "The Art of Harpsichord Playing", published in , contains suggestions for fingerings, touch, ornamentation and other features of keyboard technique.

Couperin's four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in , , , and , contain over individual pieces, which can be played on solo harpsichord or performed as small chamber works.

These pieces were not grouped into suites, as was the common practice, but ordres , which were Couperin's own version of suites containing traditional dances as well as descriptive pieces. The first and last pieces in an ordre were of the same tonality, but the middle pieces could be in other closely related tonalities. Many of Couperin's keyboard pieces have evocative, picturesque titles such as " The mysterious barricades " and express a mood through key choices, adventurous harmonies and resolved discords.

They have been likened to miniature tone poems. These features attracted Richard Strauss, who orchestrated some of them. Johannes Brahms's piano music was influenced by the keyboard music of Couperin. Brahms performed Couperin's music in public and contributed to the first complete edition of Couperin's Pieces de clavecin by Friedrich Chrysander in the s.

The early-music expert Jordi Savall has written that Couperin was the "poet musician par excellence", who believed in "the ability of Music [with a capital M] to express itself in prose and poetry", and that "if we enter into the poetry of music we discover that it carries grace that is more beautiful than beauty itself".

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Only one collection of organ music by Couperin survives, the Pieces d'orgue consistantes en deux messes "Pieces for Organ Consisting of Two Masses" , the first manuscript of which appeared around — At the age of 21, Couperin probably had neither the funds nor the reputation to obtain widespread publication, but the work was approved by his teacher, Michel Richard Delalande, who wrote that the music was "very beautiful and worthy of being given to the public.

These masses are divided into many movements in accordance with the traditional structure of the Latin Mass: Kyrie 5 movements , Gloria 9 , Sanctus 3 , Agnus 2 , and an additional Offertoire and Deo gratias to conclude each mass. Couperin followed techniques used in masses by Nivers, Lebegue, and Boyvin, as well as other predecessors of the French Baroque era. In the paroisses Mass, he uses plainchant from the Missa cunctipotens genitor Deus as a cantus firmus in two Kyrie movements and in the first Sanctus movement; the Kyrie Fugue subject is also derived from a chant incipit.

The Mass for couvents contains no plainchant, as each convent and monastery maintained its own, non-standard body of chant.

Couperin departs from his predecessors in many ways. For example, the melodies of the Recits are strictly rhythmic and more directional than previous examples of the genre. Willi Apel wrote, "this music shows a sense of natural order, a vitality, and an immediacy of feeling that breaks into French organ music like a fresh wind. The longest piece in the collection is the Offertoire sur les grands jeux of the first Mass, which is akin to an expanded French overture in three large sections: Bruce Gustafson has called the movement a "stunning masterpiece of the French classic repertory.

Apel wrote, "In general, [Couperin] did not expend the same care for this Mass, which was written for modest abbey churches, as for the other one, which he himself certainly presented on important holidays on the organ of Saint-Gervais. No 5 Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Mxnxstrxndxsx, Onzieme ordre de clavecin en do majeur: No 5 Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Mxnxstrxndxsx, Deuxieme ordre de clavecin en re majeur: No 14 La Florentine, Deuxieme ordre de clavecin en re majeur: Petit Plein jeu, Messe pour les Couvents: Petit Plein jeu, Deuxieme ordre de clavecin en re majeur: No 2 Gavotte, Vingt-sixieme ordre de clavecin en fa diese mineur: No 2 Gavotte, Messe a l'usage des Paroisses: Dialogue sur les Grands jeux 9e et dernier Couplet, Messe a l'usage des Paroisses: Dialogue sur les Grands jeux 9e et dernier Couplet, Premier ordre de clavecin en sol mineur: No 16 L'Enchanteresse, Premier ordre de clavecin en sol mineur: No 16 L'Enchanteresse, Treizieme ordre de clavecin en si mineur: No 2 Les Rozeaux, Treizieme ordre de clavecin en si mineur: No 2 Les Rozeaux, Vingt-quatrieme ordre de clavecin en la majeur: