Couperin

American  

[koop^uh-ran] / kupəˈrɛ̃ /

noun

1. François 1668–1733, French composer.

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Couperin British  

/ kuprɛ̃ /

noun

1. François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music

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Example Sentences

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

In that sense, these paintings, mostly made in the late 1760s or shortly after, have a musical analogue, an exercise in aural portraiture from a half­century earlier by the great composer François Couperin.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2017

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