Marie-Anne Couperin

Marie-Anne Couperin was a 17th-century French organist and harpsichordist and a member of the musically prominent Couperin family, which included generations of famous composers and organists.^[1][2][3]

Marie-Anne Couperin
Born	11 November 1677 Paris, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Organist and harpsicordist

Born 11 November 1677 in Paris, Marie-Anne was baptized at the church of Saint-Louis-en-l'Isle in Dordogne, France on 14 November.^[4][5] Although there are conflicting reports of her parentage (due to the similarity of names reused in the extended family), one credible source^[4] says her parents were Francois Couperin (the "first") and his second wife, Louise Bongard. She was goddaughter and cousin of François Couperin (1668-1733) (called "François the second" or "Couperin the Great") and he served as the royal harpsichordist of Louis XIV.^[2][3]

Marie-Anne was a cousin of the noted soprano and organist Marguerite-Louise Couperin (born about 1675), and Marie-Anne was aunt to the first woman to be appointed a royal court harpsichordist, Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin (1705 – c. 1778).^[2][3][6]

Marie-Anne became known as the organist and harpsichordist at Maubuisson Abbey (also called Notre-Dame-la-Royale).^[2] The ancient abbey, founded in 1236 by Blanche of Castile, is a Cistercian nunnery located at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, in the Val-d'Oise department of France.^[7]

References

1. Mellers, Wilfrid (2007-03-01). Francois Couperin and the French Classical Tradition. Read Books. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-4067-0684-0.
2. Don, Randel (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
3. Glaire, J. B. (Jean Baptiste); Walsh, Joseph-Alexis; Chantrel, Joseph; Orse, abbé; Alletz, Edouard (1840). Encyclopédie catholique, répertoire universel et raisonné des sciences, des lettres, des arts et des métiers, formant une bibliothèque universelle, avec la biographie des hommes célèbres; ornée de plus de 3000 gravures dans le texte et refermant le résumé de plus de dix mille ouvrages; (in French). New York Public Library. Paris, P. Desbarres. pp. 576–577.
4. Fétis, François Joseph (1878). Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Suppl. et complément, publ. sous la direction de A. Pougin (in French). p. 209.
5. Bouvet, Charles (1919). Une Dynastie des musiciens français: Les Couperins, organistes de l'Eglise Saint-Gervais (in French). Georg Olms Verlag. p. 109. ISBN 978-3-487-40921-4.
6. Bowers, Jane M.; Tick, Judith (1987). Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. University of Illinois Press. pp. 197. ISBN 978-0-252-01470-3. Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin.
7. "Maubuisson Abbey", Wikipedia, 2019-11-14, retrieved 2019-11-30

External links

• Wilfrid Mellers (1 March 2007). Francois Couperin and the French Classical Tradition. Read Books. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-4067-0684-0. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
• https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5551465m, retrieved 2019-11-30