Félix Le Couppey, Lithography by Marie-Alexandre Alophe ">Marie-Alexandre_Alophe.html" ;"title="Lithography by Marie-Alexandre Alophe">Lithography by Marie-Alexandre Alophe Félix Le Couppey (14 April 1811 – 4 July 1887) was a French music teacher, pianist and composer, among others, of a series of elementary études for piano students. One of his most famous pieces was called 'Melody in C' (from 'A B C du piano').

Life

Le Couppey was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Victor Dourlen. At the age of 17 he became assistant professor of harmony, receiving the first prize in pianoforte and harmony in 1825, and in pianoforte accompaniment in 1828. In 1837, he became professor of

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, succeeding

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and Victor Dourlen in harmony and accompaniment in 1843. From 1854 to 1886, he taught piano and wrote a larger number of textbooks for the instrument such as ''École du méchanisme du piano'', ''24 Études primaries'', and ''Cours de piano élémentaire et progressif''. Among his pupils were the singer

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, the composer

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and the pianists Mathilde Bernard-Laviolette,

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, and Henri Verley. He died in Paris on 4 July 1887.

Works

*''Cours de piano'' **''A B C du piano'' **''L'Alphabet'' **''Le Progrès'' **''L'Agilité'' **''Le Style'' **''La Difficulté'' *''École du méchanisme du piano'' *''L'Art du piano (50 études with annotations)'' *''De l'enseignement du piano: Conseils Aux Eleves Et Aux Jeunes Professeurs'' (1882) *''15 Studies for the Pianoforte, Preface to Czerny's Velocity Studies'' *''The Alphabet'' *''Conseils aux femmes professeurs'' *''Troisieme etude de salon'' (1842)

References

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* 1811 births 1887 deaths 19th-century French composers 19th-century French male classical pianists French music educators Piano pedagogues Pupils of Victor Dourlen Conservatoire de Paris alumni {{france-composer-stub