Louis Couperin
Louis Couperin (French: [lwi kupʁɛ̃]; c. 1626 – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–1651 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Gervais in Paris and as musician at the court. He quickly became one of the most prominent Parisian musicians, establishing himself as a harpsichordist, organist, and violist, but his career was cut short by his early death at the age of thirty-five. None of Couperin's music was published during his lifetime, but manuscript copies of some 200 pieces survive, some of them only rediscovered in the mid-20th century. The first historically important member of the Couperin family, Couperin made contributions to the development of both the French organ school and the French harpsichord school. His innovations included composing organ pieces for specific registrations and inventing the genre of the unmeasured prelude for harpsichord, for which he devised a special type of notation. |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1626 (Chaumes-en-Brie), Died August 29, 1661 (Paris)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1914 - 1941
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | C-14773 | 12-in. | 4/29/1914 | La bandoline | Ignace Jan Paderewski | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | C-14774 | 12-in. | 4/29/1914 | Le carillon de Cythere | Ignace Jan Paderewski | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | BVE-57950 | 10-in. | 12/24/1929 | La precieuse | Fritz Kreisler | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | CS-066701 | 12-in. | 7/10/1941 | Fantaisie sur l'air "Une jeune fillette" | Joseph Bonnet | Organ solo | composer | |
Gramophone | BLR6068 | 10-in. | 2/15/1930 | La précieuse | Fritz Kreisler ; Michael Raucheisen | Tenor vocal solo, with violin and orchestra | composer | |
Decca | 65542 | 10-in. | 5/5/1939 | Chaconne | Alice Ehlers | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Couperin, Louis," accessed November 22, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103188.
Couperin, Louis. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/103188.
"Couperin, Louis." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 22 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Couperin, Louis, approximately 1626-1661 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071430
Wikidata: Louis Couperin - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q50185
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