François Couperin

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.