Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
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Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers was a French organist, composer and theorist. His first livre d'orgue is the earliest surviving published collection with traditional French organ school forms. Nivers's other
Church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, where Nivers worked from the 1650s until his death. This west façade, however, was built only in 1732, after the composer's death. Watercolor by François-Étienne Villeret, first half of the 19th century.
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.
Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers
…Jean Titelouze's. With his colleague and friend Lebègue, Nivers embodies the solo organ style which was subsequently represented - and adorned - by François Couperin and the short-lived Nicolas de Grigny. Several theoretical treatises by Nivers are preserved. They remain useful sources for knowledge of both musical…
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.