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"J. Claudio Di Veroli" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:37:19 +0100
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> David Kelzenberg wrote: ... I was very (VERY!) surprised that the recent
assertion by Glen Wilson, that the harpsichord music we all know and love by
Louis Couperin may in fact not have been composed by him(!)!  (The very
interesting article is in the latest edition of Early Keyboard Journal).  I
am sure our esteemed subscriber who has produced the wonderful edition of
Couperin's harpsichord music must have given this considerable thought.  I
was frankly flabbergasted to read this article, and must admit that the
author is pretty persuasive.  ...

You are absolutely right. Wilson's argument make sense both in terms of
logic and music style of the pieces involved ... until one deeps just a bit
further. Let me quote from the Harpsichord & Fortepiano magazine, 
Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2017, p. 26, footnote 14:

14  G. Wilson. CD record liner notes to his recording of L. Couperin’s
harpsichord pieces, Naxos 8.555936.
http://www.naxos.com/sharedfiles/blurb/8.555936rev.pdf. 
This essay shows interesting indirect evidence, although it also includes
two major inconsistencies. On p. 2 we read “…the Tombeau de Blancrocher,
which presumably could be dated close to the lutenist’s death in 1662…”: 
this is implied to be contradictory with Louis Couperin’s death in 1661, 
but it is not, because Blancrocher actually died in 1652 (when Charles was
just 13). On the same page Wilson also states that at least one piece 
“ … appeared to be an arrangement with double of a Rigaudon from Lully’s
Acis et Galathée from 1686 - a quarter century after Louis death.”: 
if so, however, the arrangement cannot be the work of Charles Couperin
either, because he had died seven years earlier in 1679.

At this point I find Wilson a bit careless, thus less persuasive perhaps ...
:-)

CDV

PS: Have not read Wilson's article in the Early Keyboard Journal: hopefully
there he fare better ... 


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