François Couperin
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François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.
Couperin (anon.), collection of the Château de Versailles
Couperin, engraving by Jean Jacques Flipart, 1735, after André Bouys.
François Couperin in the timeline of French Baroque composers.
Le Tombeau de Couperin
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Le Tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedica
François Couperin
…admired by Johann Sebastian Bach, who exchanged letters with Couperin, and later by Brahms and by Ravel, the latter of whom memorialized the composer in Le Tombeau de Couperin (Couperin's Memorial). Many of Couperin's keyboard pieces have evocative, picturesque titles (such as "The little windmills" and "The mysterious…
Cover of the first edition published by Durand Cie (1918), designed by Ravel
The house where Ravel composed the work
A poster advertising Le tombeau and other 1920s Ballets suédois productions at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées