This article lists
French composers who wrote for the
harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...
during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Chronology
1640–1710: Beginnings of harpsichord music in France
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Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691)
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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601–1672)
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Louis Couperin
Louis Couperin (; – 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 ...
(c.1626–1661)
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Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749)
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Charles Dieupart (1667–1740)
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Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694)
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Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
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(1665–1729)
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Nicolas Lebègue (1631–1702)
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Gaspard Le Roux (1660–1707)
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Louis Marchand
Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French organist, harpsichordist and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosos of ...
(1669–1732)
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Nicolas Siret (1663–1754)
1710–1789: Second period
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Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (1724–1799)
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a ...
(1689–1755)
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François d'Agincourt
François d'Agincourt (also d'Agincour, Dagincourt, Dagincour) (1684 – 30 April 1758) was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedra ...
(1684–1758)
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Jean-Odéo Demars (1695–1756)
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Josse Boutmy (1697–1779; Flemish)
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Bernard de Bury
Bernard de Bury or Buri (20 August 1720 – 19 November 1785) was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era.
Biography
Bernard de Bury was born at Versailles, a member of a family of musicians, many of whom had appointments to ...
(1720–1785)
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Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (, 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French people, French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoy ...
(1711–1772)
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Michel Corrette (1707–1795)
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Armand-Louis Couperin (1727–1789)
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François Couperin
François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque music, Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musi ...
(1668–1733)
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Jean-François Dandrieu (1681–1738)
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Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
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Louis-Antoine Dornel (1680–1756)
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Jacques Duphly (1715–1789)
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Pierre Février (1696–1760)
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Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699–1782)
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Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694–1772)
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Jean-Adam Guilain (1680–1739; German)
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Célestin Harst (1698–1778)
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Christophe Moyreau (1690–1772)
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (; ; – ) was a French composer and music theory, music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of ...
(1683–1764)
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Joseph Nicolas Pancrace Royer (1705–1755)
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Simon Simon (1720?–1788)
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Philippe-François Véras (fl. 1740)
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