Talk:François Couperin

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There are two pages François Couperin and Francois Couperin

So I mixed them into one text and Francois Couperin redirects to this one Gérard 11:47, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Badly written man

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Gouts-reunis confusion
The article currently reads: "Couperin's grand trio sonata was subtitled Le Parnasse, ou l'Apothéose de Corelli... In it he blended the Italian and French styles of music in a set of pieces which he called Les Goûts réunis..." This is v. clumsily worded; it amounts to an error. Les Gouts-reunis is a completely different work from the Apotheosis -- it's a collection of suites. This extremely unclear and should be amended. (For example, the "It is" could be deleted and the sentence could read, "He blended the Italian and French styles of music in works such as this and Les Gouts-reunis ..." etc. etc. or something like that. (I'm not a Couperin scholar so I don't feel secure making such changes myself.) Nostalgicmodernist (talk) 18:37, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Couperin and Bach fingering confusion
The article reads "They influenced J.S. Bach who adopted the fingering system, including the use of the thumb, that Couperin set forth." This sentence implies three concepts. All of them are untrue: 1. There is no evidence that Bach was influenced by F.Couperin's treatise. 2. Publications by Prof. Lindley decades ago proved that Bach's fingering system was NOT (in spite of affirmations by CPE Bach on the contrary) based on the passage of the thumb. 3. F. Couperin's treatise fingers scales crossing fingers, thumb is used only for ascending left hand. This matter has been researched and reviewed: see http://finger.braybaroque.ie/

It is highly desirable that the François Couperin wiki article is amended as per the above comments.

Kind regards

Dr. C. Di Veroli Bray, Ireland http://harps.braybaroque.ie/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diveroli (talk • contribs) 00:34, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing this out. I've removed the offending sentence entirely. Graham 87 04:16, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Les fastes de la grande et ancienne Mxnxstrxndxsx & Les Culbutes Jxcxbxnxs
It'd be nice if the above works were included in this article. The first has articles on fr & it wikipedia. The second is normally translated as Jacobin somersaults. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.4.25.27 (talk) 21:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Date of death?
A few latest sources [https://books.google.lt/books?id=fPQFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT164&dq=François+Couperin&hl=lt&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Fran%C3%A7ois%20Couperin&f=false David Tunley. François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music. Routledge, 2016] and [https://books.google.lt/books?id=06D7DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6&dq=François+Couperin&hl=lt&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Fran%C3%A7ois%20Couperin&f=false Brunold, Paul. Francois Couperin. Read Books Ltd, 2016] claims he died on 12th September, not 11th.--SubRE (talk) 06:50, 22 July 2017 (UTC)