Pièces de clavecin, Book 1

by Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Composed 1650–1670
Published 1670
Works 4

Thirty harpsichord pieces organized as suites of French dances. Published in 1670 when Chambonnières was nearly seventy, this first book established the template for the French harpsichord suite — elegant allemandes, lively courantes, stately sarabandes — that would be followed by d'Anglebert, Couperin, and Rameau.

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