Baroque · French
François Couperin
1668 – 1733
François Couperin's four books of Pièces de clavecin contain more than two hundred ordres of harpsichord pieces — character sketches, dances, and tableaux that define the French Baroque keyboard tradition.
Couperin's ornament tables and his treatise L'art de toucher le clavecin shaped Baroque keyboard pedagogy and still inform period-instrument practice today.
The 20 public-domain piano works listed below are sortable, downloadable as PDF score editions, and free to study, perform, record, and re-engrave. Each piece links to its individual page with full catalog data, performance notes, and historical context. Browse more works from the Baroque era, or use the difficulty filters below to narrow by technical level.
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84 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 36 Keyboard · 28 Chamber · 20 Vocal.
- Ad te levavi oculos meos, for choirVocal
- Concert 10Chamber
- Concert 11Chamber
- Concert 12Chamber
- Concert 13Chamber
- Concert 7Chamber
- Concert 9, "Ritratto dell'Amore"Chamber
- Deuxième Concert in DChamber
- Domine salvum fac regem, for choirVocal
- Doux liens de mon coeur, air sérieux for soprano and continuoVocal
- Epitaphe d'un paresseux, air à boire for 2 voices, "Jean s'en alla comme il était venu"Vocal
- Exultent superi, for choir, "Motet for Saint Suzanne"Vocal
- Five Pieces, for two harpsichordsKeyboard
- IntroductionKeyboard
- L'Apothéose de Lully, for various instruments and continuoChamber
- L'Espagnole, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- L'impériale, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- L’art de toucher le clavecinKeyboard
- La Françoise, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- La Piémontoise, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- La Steinquerque, trio sonata for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- La Sultane, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- La superbe, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- Laetentur coeli, for 2 sopranos and continuoVocal
- Lauda Sion salvatorem, motet for 2 treble voices and continuoVocal
- Le Parnasse, ou L'Apothéose de Corelli, for 2 violins and continuoChamber
- Leçons de ténèbres, for 1 or 2 voices and continuoVocal
- Les Barricades mystérieusesKeyboard
- Les idees heureusesChamber
- Les Nations, 3rd Ordre, for chamber ensemble, "L'Imperiale"Chamber
- Les Pellerines, air sérieux for 2 voices, "Au temple de l'amour"Vocal
- Magnificat, for 2 sopranos and continuoVocal
- Magnificat, motet for 2 sopranos and continuoVocal
- Mass for the Convents, for organKeyboard
- Mass for the ParishesVocal
- Messe des Paroisses, for organKeyboard
- Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et religieusesVocal
- O domine quia refugium, for 3 basses and continuoVocal
- O misterium ineffabile, for choir, "Elevation"Vocal
- Ordre 1 in G minor or GKeyboard
- Ordre 10 in D or D-Keyboard
- Ordre 11 in C minor or CKeyboard
- Ordre 12 in E or E-Keyboard
- Ordre 13 in B minorKeyboard
- Ordre 14 in D minor or DKeyboard
- Ordre 15 in A minor or AKeyboard
- Ordre 16 in GKeyboard
- Ordre 17 in E minorKeyboard
- Ordre 18 in F minor or FKeyboard
- Ordre 19 in D minor or DKeyboard
- Ordre 2 in D minor or DKeyboard
- Ordre 20 in G or G-Keyboard
- Ordre 21 in E minorKeyboard
- Ordre 22 in D or D-Keyboard
- Ordre 23 in FKeyboard
- Ordre 24 in A or A-Keyboard
- Ordre 25 in E flat major or C or C-Keyboard
- Ordre 26 in F sharp minorKeyboard
- Ordre 27 in B minorKeyboard
- Ordre 3 in C minor or CKeyboard
- Ordre 4 in FKeyboard
- Ordre 5 in A or A-Keyboard
- Ordre 6 in B flat majorKeyboard
- Ordre 7 in G or G-Keyboard
- Ordre 8 in B minorKeyboard
- Ordre 9 in A or A-Keyboard
- Ornate aras, for choirVocal
- PassacailleKeyboard
- Pieces de violes avec la basse chifreeChamber
- Pièces en concert, for cello and stringsChamber
- Premier Concert in GChamber
- Quatorzième concert, for various instruments in D minorChamber
- Quatrième Concert in E minorChamber
- Resonent organa, for choir, "Motet for Saint Cecile"Vocal
- Suite 1, for viola da gamba and continuoChamber
- Suite 2, for viola da gamba and continuoChamber
- Tantum ergo sacramentum, for choirVocal
- The Lace MakersKeyboard
- The ReedsKeyboard
- Troisième Concert in AChamber
- TrompetteChamber
- Vaudeville, air sérieux for 3 voices and continuo, "Faisons du temps un doux usage"Vocal
- Victoria: Christo resurgenti, for 2 soprano and continuoVocal
- Viola da Gamba Suite no. 2 in AChamber