Les Folies Françoises / Patrick Cöhen-Akenine FRANÇOIS COUPERIN Portraits crosés
The great originality of the harpsichord works of François Couperin (1668-1733) lies in his progressively freeing himself from dance suite forms inherited from the 17th century to compose genre pieces, equipped with proper titles and grouped in ordres (of the same tonality, alternating major and minor). Even if one can still hear underlying dances, Couperin builds as a composition principle a Classical aesthetic founded upon imitation.
Yet while specialising in musical portraits, Couperin often falls impishly into enigmatic titles: one of the favourite games of harpsichordists and musicologists has always consisted of attempting to decipher them.
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