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Complete Keyboard Works, Series One (Dover Classical Piano Music)

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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." Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications


Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 1988


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486257959


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 52


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.18 x 0.57 x 10.9 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #989,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,311 in Opera & Classical Songbooks #2,899 in Piano & Keyboards #4,135 in Piano Songbooks


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  • François Couperin !
Format: Paperback
François Couperin is one of Frenchs best baroque composer. He is not widly known, but his music is one of the most expressive in that era. This edition contains all the orders from Couperins first too "books" plus the first order of the third "book". Of all the pieces, I think I can quote "Les baricades misterieuses" (the misterious barricades), of the sixth order, which is one of the most popular and enchanting pieces Couperin ever composed. In conclusion, Dover reached it's goal by offering musicians the best music at the lowest price possible in a fairly good edition. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2000 by Jérémie L.

  • Very comprehensive collection of Couperine's piano pieces
Format: Paperback
Great addition to my wife's collection of classical piano music.
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2018 by FrancisJ

  • Five Stars
Format: Paperback
nice
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017 by gary a gallucci

  • Study in melody, and trills .
Format: Paperback
Study in French baroque. Common key signatures. Great study in melody, tempo, harmonics, and a large dose of ornamentation. Negative : The text is printed smaller than I like.
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2021 by Ralph R. Barba

  • Five Stars
Format: Paperback
great job
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015 by peter

  • A Musical Treat
Format: Paperback
This is a wonderful collection of Francois Couperin's keyboard music, co-edited by Brahms in the 1880s and republished by Dover in the characteristically attractive format and low price that are that publisher's hallmark. It includes a piece I've loved and wanted to learn ever since I first heard it, perhaps 20 years ago, on a fine 1970's recording of baroque harpsichord music by Sylvia Marlowe on Sine Qua Non. Les Baricades Misterieuses (the preface notes that Couperin's titles were "often eccentric and quaint) is a beautiful, warm, mellow meditation on cycles of fifths and other piquant chord changes B flat. But the volume is a rich compendium with much else in the way of interesting, varied, lovely short pieces. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2003 by David

  • Print too small
Format: Paperback
The size of the print is extremely disappointing. It is not the regulation music sheet size, which makes it extremely difficult to sight read. They want to save paper, although there is plenty of room on each sheet to make it larger, obviously this was printed by NON musicians who have no idea what they are doing. Shame on them!! I may send it back. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2023 by jt

  • The simplistic stupidity of the editor poisons the integrity of this edition.
Format: Kindle
The introduction is so full of blatant historical mistakes by the editor Fr Chrysander that one has to wonder about his treatment of the music itself. He claims that Francois Couperin was the first great composer for the pianoforte in history and that Scarlatti, Bach and Handel were students of Couperin. Couperin wrote for the harpsichord. It doesn't mean you cannot play his music on a piano but he DID NOT write this music for the piano. He wrote it for the harpsichord and he was preceded by a multitude of great composers for the harpsichord, such as Frescobaldi, Byrd, Gibbons, Bull, Kinloch, Buxtehude, Froberger and numerous, numerous others. Bach and Handel and Scarlatti were most certainly NOT students of Couperin. It would perhaps be a bit grubby and inappropriate to name the orifice from which the editor pulled his allegations, but it will be sufficient to say this: the editor offers insult to truth, he offers insult to intelligence, he offers insult to history and, he insults the integrity and, he insults the instrument for which this glorious music was written. In so doing, he insults Francois Couperin. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2016 by Waning Moon Conrad

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