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.
Les Barricades Mystérieuses
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses is a piece of music that François Couperin composed for harpsichord in 1717. It is the fifth piece in his Ordre 6ème de clavecin in B-flat major, from his second book of co
François Couperin
…Tombeau de Couperin (Couperin's Memorial). Many of Couperin's keyboard pieces have evocative, picturesque titles (such as "The little windmills" and "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…
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