Informationen zu "1. Pieces de Clavecin"
Komponist/Autor: Louis Couperin
Verlag: Lyrebird Music
Verlagsnummer: LBMP–076–077
Beschreibung
Published in 2026 to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Louis Couperin’s birth, this combined edition brings together the composer’s complete surviving music for harpsichord and organ in two major scholarly volumes prepared by Jon Baxendale and David Ponsford. Drawing upon many years of editorial and musicological research, the publications represent the most extensive modern study devoted to Couperin’s keyboard music and the wider musical world of seventeenth-century France. The Pièces de clavecin volume presents the only fully complete modern edition of Couperin’s surviving harpsichord music, incorporating the Oldham manuscript pieces that had remained inaccessible to scholars since their discovery in 1957. The Pièces d’orgue volume is prepared from the Oldham manuscript, the only known witness to Couperin’s organ music apart from two concordances preserved elsewhere. Together, the two publications bring Couperin’s surviving keyboard music into a unified scholarly framework for the first time. Both volumes are accompanied by extensive bilingual prefaces in English and French, each amounting to more than 100,000 words, exploring questions of source transmission, notation, ornamentation, rhetoric, performance practice, liturgical tradition and the broader soundscape of seventeenth-century Paris. Particular attention is devoted to Saint-Gervais, chant practice, the culture of the French organ loft and the stylistic foundations of the French Classical tradition. Detailed graphological analysis also revisits longstanding questions surrounding the Oldham source and its place within the wider Couperin tradition. Prepared directly from the surviving sources, the musical texts combine scholarly rigour with practical clarity for performers. Appropriate plainchant has also been included within the organ volume for those wishing to perform the hymns in a liturgical setting. The editions are available in four formats: hardback, wirebound, electronic (PDF) and Collector’s Editions featuring foiled lettering, placemarker ribbons, head and tail bands, and marbled endpapers. Issued together as part of the Louis Couperin 400 commemorative publications, the two volumes constitute a major contribution to the study and performance of French Baroque keyboard music.
