| Naxos | Louis Couperin was born in Chaumes about the year 1626, the son of Charles Couperin, a versatile musician, tailor and merchant, who probably served as organist at the Benedictine Abbey in Chaumes. The sixth of eight children, Louis Couperin seems to have served as a notary’s clerk in Chaumes-en-Brie between 1641 and 1645 and from 1646 in Beauvoir, and had his musical instruction from his father. In the early 1650s he and his two musician brothers, Charles and François, played an aubade at the château of the king’s harpsichordist, Chambonnières, and it was through the latter that Louis Couperin was able to move to Paris. There he made an immediate impression on those who heard him and his meetings with the lutenist Charles Fleury, Sieur de Blancrocher, and the organist and composer Johann Jacob Froberger, whose music exercised a strong influence over his own work, proved fruitful. |
| Disc No: 8.555936 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Couperin 24 Pieces de Clavecin | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Couperin, Louis | Five Pieces | D major | Glen Wilson, harpsichord | |
| Couperin, Louis | Prelude (Toccade After M. Froberger | A minor | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Prelude | F major | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher | F major | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Five Pieces | G minor | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Six Pieces | C major | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Prelude | A major | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Pavane | F sharp minor | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Prelude (Toccade) | D minor | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Prelude | G major | ||
| Couperin, Louis | Galliarde | G major |