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Louis Couperin

1626 - 1661

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Louis Couperin (French: [lwi kupʁɛ̃]; c. 1626 – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer. He was born in Chaumes-en-Brie and moved to Paris in 1650–1651 with the help of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. Couperin worked as organist of the Church of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Couperin has received more than 106,718 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Louis Couperin is the 535th most popular composer (up from 541st in 2019), the 2,226th most popular biography from France (up from 2,228th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Composer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Louis Couperin ranks 535 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Kamen, Ivan Zajc, François-Joseph Fétis, Edgard Varèse, Luigi Rossi, and Paul Bowles. After him are George Antheil, Vicente Martín y Soler, Manuel Ponce, Maxim Berezovsky, Ernest Guiraud, and Gara Garayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Louis Couperin ranks 10. Before him are Richard Cromwell, William II, Prince of Orange, Francesco Redi, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, and Giovanni Legrenzi. After him are Bada Shanren, John Aubrey, Andrea Guarneri, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Pietro Mengoli, and Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken. Among people deceased in 1661, Louis Couperin ranks 10. Before him are Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Vasile Lupu, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Zheng Zhilong, and Andrea Sacchi. After him are Jan Fyt, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, Martino Martini, Pieter de Molijn, Guru Har Rai, and Pyotr Beketov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Couperin ranks 2,226 out of 6,770. Before him are Dominique Pinon (1955), Géraud Duroc (1772), Hincmar (806), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Jacques Copeau (1879), and Peter Nolasco (1180). After him are François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), Gustave Kahn (1859), Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757), Joseph Darnand (1897), Fred Vargas (1957), and Christian Jacq (1947).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Louis Couperin ranks 80. Before him are Florent Schmitt (1870), Alexandre Desplat (1961), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Hervé (1825), and Edgard Varèse (1883). After him are Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Pierre Henry (1927), Henri Duparc (1848), Gabriel Pierné (1863), Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), and François Devienne (1759).

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