Glen Wilson - Couperin: Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher (2003)
BAND/ARTIST: Glen Wilson
- Title: Couperin: Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher
- Year Of Release: 2003
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical Harpsichord
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:14:54
- Total Size: 420 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Prelude
02. Allemande
03. Courante
04. Sarabande
05. Gigue
06. Prelude (Toccade) In A Minor
07. Prelude In F Major
08. Tombeau De M. De Blancrocher In F Major
09. Prelude
10. Allemande
11. Courante
12. Sarabande
13. Passacaille
14. Prelude
15. Allemande
16. Courante
17. Courante (Croisee)
18. Rigaudon Et Double
19. Gigue
20. Prelude In A Major
21. Pavane In F Sharp Minor
22. Prelude (Toccade) In D Minor
23. Prelude In G Major
24. Galliarde In G Major
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. In April 1653 Louis Couperin was appointed organist at Saint-Gervais, a position that brought with it a residence in Paris. He rejected the offered position of royal harpsichordist out of deference to his patron Chambonnières, whose services at court were allegedly relinquished through his inability to accompany from a figured bass. Chambonnières was later able to sell the reversion of this position to d’Anglebert. Couperin was instead granted by the King the title of treble viol player in the royal musical establishment. He enjoyed the patronage of Abel Servien, Surintendant des finances, and spent time at the latter’s château in Meudon. He died in Paris on 29th August 1661, leaving his property to his brothers, who lived with him in the Saint-Gervais organist’s house. An agreement between the two surviving brothers allowed them to share the principal property, the compositions of Louis Couperin, to which they both now had equal access. Charles Couperin, the youngest of the brothers and father of the most famous musician in the family, the younger François, later known as le grand, succeeded Louis as organist at Saint-Gervais. The older François seems to have earned a living as a teacher, the length of his lessons corresponding to the amount of wine supplied, and as an occasional deputy to his brother and nephew.
01. Prelude
02. Allemande
03. Courante
04. Sarabande
05. Gigue
06. Prelude (Toccade) In A Minor
07. Prelude In F Major
08. Tombeau De M. De Blancrocher In F Major
09. Prelude
10. Allemande
11. Courante
12. Sarabande
13. Passacaille
14. Prelude
15. Allemande
16. Courante
17. Courante (Croisee)
18. Rigaudon Et Double
19. Gigue
20. Prelude In A Major
21. Pavane In F Sharp Minor
22. Prelude (Toccade) In D Minor
23. Prelude In G Major
24. Galliarde In G Major
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. In April 1653 Louis Couperin was appointed organist at Saint-Gervais, a position that brought with it a residence in Paris. He rejected the offered position of royal harpsichordist out of deference to his patron Chambonnières, whose services at court were allegedly relinquished through his inability to accompany from a figured bass. Chambonnières was later able to sell the reversion of this position to d’Anglebert. Couperin was instead granted by the King the title of treble viol player in the royal musical establishment. He enjoyed the patronage of Abel Servien, Surintendant des finances, and spent time at the latter’s château in Meudon. He died in Paris on 29th August 1661, leaving his property to his brothers, who lived with him in the Saint-Gervais organist’s house. An agreement between the two surviving brothers allowed them to share the principal property, the compositions of Louis Couperin, to which they both now had equal access. Charles Couperin, the youngest of the brothers and father of the most famous musician in the family, the younger François, later known as le grand, succeeded Louis as organist at Saint-Gervais. The older François seems to have earned a living as a teacher, the length of his lessons corresponding to the amount of wine supplied, and as an occasional deputy to his brother and nephew.
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