Complete Keyboard Works, Series One
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"His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique." — John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard Music
This famous edition, prepared a century ago by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, presents all of the 27 keyboard suites, or Ordres, by the great French composer François Couperin (1668–1733). Also included are the Allemande and 8 Preludes from Couperin's famous harpsichord treatise, L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin.
In these magnificent works (there are over 200 compositions in the two volumes) lies the supreme achievement of French keyboard music, a rich source of subtle, sometimes startling, always pleasurable music for keyboard artists and students at every level of expertise. The moods, rhythms, and melodies of these distinctive compositions range across a broad musical spectrum, from crisp gavottes to noble sarabandes, from flowing allemandes to lively gigues. Some of the pieces suggest carnival merriment, others tender reflection; most have colorful and mysterious names. Couperin's virtuoso command of harpsichord style, his magnificent technique, and ever-fresh melodic imagination pervade them all.
Witty, graceful, and tuneful, the keyboard works of Couperin represent a wonderful legacy of late-baroque masterpieces. Beautifully reproduced in this inexpensive edition, they make abundantly clear the justice of Bach's intense admiration for Couperin's music and the aptness of the French master's surname — "le grand."
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Complete Keyboard Works, Series One - Francois Couperin
Complete Keyboard Works
Series One: Ordres I-XIII
François Couperin
Johannes Brahms
Friedrich Chrysander
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is a republication of Vols. 1 and 2 and a portion of Vol. 3 of Pièces de Clavecin, edited by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, originally published by Augener Ltd., London, n.d. (Preface dated 1888). The glossary, translations of titles (in the table of contents) and translations of footnotes are new features of the Dover edition.
We are grateful to the Paul Klapper Library of Queens College for the loan of the score.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Couperin, François, 1668-1733.
[Keyboard music]
Complete keyboard works.
Reprint: Pieces de clavecin. | composées par François Couperin ; revues par J. Brahms & F. Chrysander. London : Augener, 1888 (1st work); L’art de toucher le clavecin / Francois Couperin ; Margery Halford, editor and translator. Sherman Oaks, Calif. : Alfred Pub. Co., 1974 (2nd work).
Contents: ser. 1. [Pieces de clavecin]. Ordres I-XIII—ser. 2. [Pieces de clavecin]. Ordres XIV-XXVII ; From L’art de toucher le clavecin. Allemande. Premier prélude. Second prélude. Troisième prélude. Quatrième prelude. Cinquième prélude. Sixième prélude. Septième prelude. Huitième prélude.
1. Keyboard instrument music.
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Much mystery still surrounds Couperin’s titles, and many of the English translations below are speculative. In particular, it is frequently impossible to tell whether a feminine adjective or substantive refers to an actual female or instead to the piece itself, with the feminine noun pièce
being unstated but understood (e.g., La [piece] majestueuse
). Even a male may be referred to by a feminine title if pièce
is the presumed noun, with the man’s name serving as an adjective.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE.
VORWORT.
PRÉFACE.
Explication des Agrémens, et des Signes.
GLOSSARY
PREMIER ORDRE.
SECOND ORDRE.
TROISIÊME ORDRE.
QUATRIÊME ORDRE.
CINQUIÊME ORDRE.
SIXIÊME ORDRE.
SEPTIÊME ORDRE.
HUITIÊME ORDRE.
NEUVIÊME ORDRE.
DIXIÊME ORDRE.
ONZIÊME ORDRE.
DOUZIÊME ORDRE.
TREIZIÈME ORDRE.
PREFACE.
François Couperin (1668–1733) is the first great composer for the pianoforte known in the history of music. The eminent masters who preceded him—Merulo, Frescobaldi and many others—applied their art quite as much to the organ as to the harpsichord; whereas Couperin, though he played both instruments, wrote for the latter only. He stands, therefore, at the commencement of the modern age, and