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Marc Roger Normand Couperin
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Marc-Roger Normand Couperin (December 1663 – January 25, 1734) was a French harpsichordist and composer. He was a descendant of the Couperin family, nephew of Louis Couperin and cousin of François Couperin. Marc-Roger Normand Couperin himself is not known until 1688 when it was documented that he was a harpsichordist in an opera at the ducal court of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy in Turin . In 1690 he became harpsichord teacher of the ducal family, notably Prince Emanuele Filiberto Carignano and organist of the ducal chapel from 1699, and possibly also head of music. He would remain in the service of that court until his death in 1734. In 1997 the Italian harpsichordist Alessandro Ferranese discovered in a private collection a manuscript containing 57 unknown works for harpsichord by Marc-Roger Normand Couperin. The manuscript is entitled Livre de tablature de clavescin de Monsieur de Druent, écrit par Couperin . Given the quality of the pieces in the manuscript, it can be assumed that they were written by someone who has already written a lot of music, but music that must now (still) be considered lost. 'Monsieur de Druent' was Count Ottavio Provana di Druent , (after Druentonear Turin), known locally as 'Monsù Druent', one of Vittorio Amedeo II's intimates. Until the discovery of this manuscript, Marc-Roger Normand Couperin was actually mainly known as the relative of François Couperin (see there under 'Les gouts réunis'), who is said to have sent him an unknown Italian so