Canon
Where to start with Couperin
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
KeyboardLes Barricades mystérieuses
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ChamberLes Nations, 3rd Ordre, for chamber ensemble, "L'Imperiale"
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VocalA l'ombre d'un ormeau, musette, air sérieux for 2 voices and continuo
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VocalAd te levavi oculos meos, for choir
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ChamberConcert 10
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ChamberConcert 11
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ChamberConcert 12
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ChamberConcert 13
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ChamberConcert 7
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ChamberConcert 9, "Ritratto dell'Amore"
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ChamberDeuxième Concert in D
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VocalDomine salvum fac regem, for choir
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VocalDoux liens de mon coeur, air sérieux for soprano and continuo
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VocalEpitaphe d'un paresseux, air à boire for 2 voices, "Jean s'en alla comme il était venu"
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VocalExultent superi, for choir, "Motet for Saint Suzanne"
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Couperin's catalogueMost Popular
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Les Barricades mystérieuses
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Passacaille in B minor
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Le Tic-Toc-Choc (Les Maillotins)
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Les Folies françoises
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L\’Apothéose de Lully
Most Acclaimed
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Pièces de clavecin (4 Books complete)
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Les Nations (4 suites for two violins)
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L\’Apothéose de Corelli
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L\’Apothéose de Lully
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Concert royaux
Most Weird
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Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Ménestrandiseharpsichord suite — a musical satire mocking the Musicians’ Guild that had sued Couperin
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La Visionnairethe opening ”visionary” piece of the 18th Ordre — theatrical and strange
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L\’Arlequine
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Les Gondoles de Déloswater music before Handel’s
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Les Sons bruyants (keyboard)onomatopoeic — the harsh sounds
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 85
- Keyboard
- Les Barricades mystérieuses
- Five Pieces, for two harpsichords
- Introduction
- L’art de toucher le clavecin
- Mass for the Convents, for organ
- Messe des Paroisses, for organ
- Ordre 1 in G minor or G
- Ordre 10 in D or D-
- Ordre 11 in C minor or C
- Ordre 12 in E or E-
- Ordre 13 in B minor
- Ordre 14 in D minor or D
- Ordre 15 in A minor or A
- Ordre 16 in G
- Ordre 17 in E minor
- Ordre 18 in F minor or F
- Ordre 19 in D minor or D
- Ordre 2 in D minor or D
- Ordre 20 in G or G-
- Ordre 21 in E minor
- Ordre 22 in D or D-
- Ordre 23 in F
- Ordre 24 in A or A-
- Ordre 25 in E flat major or C or C-
- Ordre 26 in F sharp minor
- Ordre 27 in B minor
- Ordre 3 in C minor or C
- Ordre 4 in F
- Ordre 5 in A or A-
- Ordre 6 in B flat major
- Ordre 7 in G or G-
- Ordre 8 in B minor
- Ordre 9 in A or A-
- Passacaille
- The Lace Makers
- The Reeds
- Chamber
- Les Nations, 3rd Ordre, for chamber ensemble, "L'Imperiale"
- Concert 10
- Concert 11
- Concert 12
- Concert 13
- Concert 7
- Concert 9, "Ritratto dell'Amore"
- Deuxième Concert in D
- L'Apothéose de Lully, for various instruments and continuo
- L'Espagnole, for 2 violins and continuo
- L'impériale, for 2 violins and continuo
- La Françoise, for 2 violins and continuo
- La Piémontoise, for 2 violins and continuo
- La Steinquerque, trio sonata for 2 violins and continuo
- La Sultane, for 2 violins and continuo
- La superbe, for 2 violins and continuo
- Le Parnasse, ou L'Apothéose de Corelli, for 2 violins and continuo
- Les idees heureuses
- Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree
- Pièces en concert, for cello and strings
- Premier Concert in G
- Quatorzième concert, for various instruments in D minor
- Quatrième Concert in E minor
- Suite 1, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Suite 2, for viola da gamba and continuo
- Troisième Concert in A
- Trompette
- Viola da Gamba Suite no. 2 in A
- Vocal
- A l'ombre d'un ormeau, musette, air sérieux for 2 voices and continuo
- Ad te levavi oculos meos, for choir
- Domine salvum fac regem, for choir
- Doux liens de mon coeur, air sérieux for soprano and continuo
- Epitaphe d'un paresseux, air à boire for 2 voices, "Jean s'en alla comme il était venu"
- Exultent superi, for choir, "Motet for Saint Suzanne"
- Laetentur coeli, for 2 sopranos and continuo
- Lauda Sion salvatorem, motet for 2 treble voices and continuo
- Les Pellerines, air sérieux for 2 voices, "Au temple de l'amour"
- Leçons de ténèbres, for 1 or 2 voices and continuo
- Magnificat, for 2 sopranos and continuo
- Magnificat, motet for 2 sopranos and continuo
- Mass for the Parishes
- Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et religieuses
- O domine quia refugium, for 3 basses and continuo
- O misterium ineffabile, for choir, "Elevation"
- Ornate aras, for choir
- Resonent organa, for choir, "Motet for Saint Cecile"
- Tantum ergo sacramentum, for choir
- Vaudeville, air sérieux for 3 voices and continuo, "Faisons du temps un doux usage"
- Victoria: Christo resurgenti, for 2 soprano and continuo