Open Directory - Arts:Music:Composition:Composers:C:Couperin, François


home \| help

Top: Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: C: Couperin,_François

Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of François Couperin, including biographies, discographies, analyses of compositions, or bibliographies.

French Baroque composer and keyboard player François Couperin (1668-1733) grew up in a musical family and succeeded his father and uncle as organist of St. Gervais Church in Paris. Later he was royal organist and then royal harpsichordist under Louis XIV. He wrote church, chamber, and harpsichord music.

Open Directory Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: Baroque
Open Directory Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: By Region: Europe: French
Open Directory Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: Couperin Family
Open Directory Arts: Music: Instruments: Keyboard: Harpsichord: Performers
Open Directory Arts: Music: Instruments: Keyboard: Organ: Organists
Open Directory Arts: Music: Styles: Choral: Composers
Open Directory Arts: Music: Styles: Classical: Lieder: Composers
Open Directory Arts: Music: Theory: Theorists