Louis Couperin Chaconne in F, Gregory Hamilton, Harpsichord

Chaconne in F, Louis Couperin 1626-1661
Louis Couperin was the first of the great Couperin music dynasty. He is credited with being one of the first to develop a distinctive French harpsichord style of the seventeenth century. Some 200 pieces survive, only in manuscripts, the popularity and circulation attests to his renown as composer and performer.
Also active and an organist and viol player, he was titulare organist at the Church of St-Gervais-et-Protais in Paris, form 1653 until his death in 1661. He was the uncle of Francois Couperin "The Great".
Art by Michel Dorigny (1616 - 20 February 1665) was a French painter and engraver.
Dorigny was born in Saint-Quentin. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History he was a pupil of Georges Lallemand and Simon Vouet. He trained at the Académie de peinture et de sculpture and and trained his sons, painters Nicolas and Louis Dorigny. According to Roger de Piles he married Vouet's daughter, and was himself professor of the Academy when he died in Paris. Dorigny was known for his allegorical works, sacred scenes, and development of mythological subjects, which would have been well understood by his viewers of the time.
www.gregoryhamilton.org
Harpsichord: Lynn Krajewski, Houston 1991
Temperament Ordinaire, altered

[@RalphLooij]

Excellent playing of this fine Chaconne. Thanks.

[@thedigitalharpsichordist1541]

Beautiful interpretation!

[@stevenellis3108]

Beautiful.

[@stripedgazelle]

Louis was an uncle, not father, of Francois "Le Grand", yes?