couperin
François Couperin (1668-1733) is one of the foremost composers of the siècle français, an age in what is France today started to take shape. A strong centralized state, served by dedicated technocrats. A penchant for great construction works, great declarations of principles, for faustus, for frivolity, for beligerance.
Couperin is the last great french composer before the triumph of the new generation and their ideas. A man intimate with Versaille's musical evenings
during Louis XIV and still under the influence of the fatherly figure Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687).
We baptized our group based on a piece by Couperin and its insouciance: Le Je ne Scay Quoy. Something unsayable, that can be felt but not articulated: fascinanting, intriguing, dangerous perhaps.
Were are playing our baptismal music.
