Couperin
Americannoun
noun
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In his recital program and Sony recording “Baroque Conversations,” Mr. Greilsammer brought Rameau, Couperin and Frescobaldi into feisty encounters with modernists like Feldman, Lachenmann and Matan Porat.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2020
Another nonagenarian, Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, who turns 91 this month, was represented by a quirky piece for piccolo and piano that took its inspiration from Couperin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2019
We could all do with a little enlightenment, supplied by French composers of that period: Rameau, Leclair and Couperin.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Hearing a modern composer arrange an early-18th-century piece is a sort of conversation itself: between Adès and Couperin, across 277 years.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
He greatly missed the salons of Paris, and would ask them to play the music of Couperin, Rameau, and Royer in memory of his homeland.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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