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Pierre Fvrier
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Pierre Fvrier (16961760) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.
Born at Abbeville on 21 March 1696, he arrived in Paris in 1720 and served as titular organist of
two churches on Saint-Honor street: the Jacobins' church (destroyed at the Revolution) and
Saint-Roch (still standing). Claude-Bnigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was among his
pupils and eventually succeeded Fvrier at Saint-Roch. Pierre Fvrier died in Paris on 5 November
1760.
Two volumes of his harpsichord pieces are extant. The first one is dated 1734 and contains five
suites:
Suite in A major
Allemande la Magnanime
Le Concert des Dieux - Double du concert
La Dlectable
Le Berceau
La Boufonne ou la Paysanne
Suite in D minor
Fugue
Courante
Les Plaisirs des Sens
Le Labyrinthe
Ariette et doubles
Suite in B minor
Fugue
L'Intrpide
La Grotesque
Suite in D major
Gavotte et doubles
Le Brinborion
Le Tendre Language
Tambourin
Suite (Festes de Campagne) in C major
Entre
Musette
2 Menuets
Le Gros Colas et la Grosse Jeanne
Les Petites Bergres
The second volume, composed after 1734 and before 1737, was discovered in the late 1990s in a

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private collection in Belgium (Arenberg). It contains two harpsichord suites that follow a similar
pattern, mixing dances and descriptive pices de caractre in the typical late Baroque French
tradition:
1st Suite in G Minor
Les Liens Harmoniques - Rondeau
La Caressante - Rondeau
La Fertillante
La petite Coquette
Tambourin - Rondeau
2nd Suite in C Minor
Allemande
Les Tendres Tourterelles - Rondeau
Les Croisades - Rondeau
Menuet

See also
French baroque harpsichordists

External links
IMSLP (http://imslp.org/wiki/Pices_de_clavecin,_livre_I_(Fvrier,_Pierre)) Free scores of
the Premier Livre.
La Sala del Cembalo del caro Sassone (http://www.saladelcembalo.it/) Pices de clavecin,
Premier livre, 1734. The World Premiere Recording of the first book, as recorded by the
harpsichordist Fernando De Luca (Rome, December 2008), is freely available in streaming on
this non-profit website devoted to the ancient music and harpsichord baroque music.
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French harpsichordists French classical organists 1696 births 1760 deaths
18th-century keyboardists 18th-century classical composers
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