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Couperin Family
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Family tree and brief profiles of family members, nearly all of whom served as organist at Ste-Gervais in Paris.
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The Couperin family During nearly two centuries, members of this family have succeeded one another continuously at Saint Gervais organ. Their story begins in Louis XIV's time with Louis Couperin's appointment (1653) and ends a decade after Napoleon's time, at Gervais-François Couperin's death...Portrait and biography.
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Armand-Louis Couperin He accumulated many posts of organist and then he owed, as it was usual, be frequently replaced by one of his three children, who all played the organ. Armand-Louis was killed a few months before the French Revolution in a...