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Also Known As Couperin Le Grand
Born November 10, 1668 • Paris • France
Died September 11, 1733 (aged 64) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Leçons de ténèbres”
Movement / Style Baroque music

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Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
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Jean-Baptiste Lully, engraving by Geille after Johannot, c. 1830.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
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William Byrd
William Byrd
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Thomas Tomkins
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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Danish composer
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Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
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William Croft
English musician
Olivier Messiaen.
Olivier Messiaen
French composer
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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières
French composer
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Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer
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Louis Couperin
French composer
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Michel-Richard Delalande, detail of a crayon drawing by J.-B. Santerre
Michel-Richard Delalande
French composer
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Marin Marais
French composer

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