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Blandine Verlet (born Paris, February 27, 1942) is a harpsichordiste and a harpsichord teacherix. Born into a musical family, she was the seventh of ten children, and in 1957 gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire, studying piano and harpsichord. Having decided on her specialism, she studied harpsichord with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris, Ruggero Gerlin in Siena and Ralph Kirckpatrick in the US. A significant competition prize in Paris in 1963 led to engagements in Italy and West Germany.

Verlet has been widely praised for her recordings of Bach, including the 'Goldberg Variations', but it is perhaps in the music of her compatriot Francois Couperin that she displays exceptional sensitivity and imagination. Verlet recorded Couperin's complete works in the 1970s and 80s, and in late 2011 she returned to re-record five 'ordres' on the period Henri Hemsch harpsichord. Verlet wrote a poem in celebration of Couperin which accompanied the release, the closing lines of which exemplify her great imaginative empathy with this key French composer:

                         We hope we too have managed to grasp
                         your art of playing the harpsichord.
                         The art of both poetry and precision.
                         The art of whispering, murmuring.
                         The song without words, lighter for having no text.
                         Wandering shadows, expressions of the heart.
                         Our thanks to you, Francois Couperin.    (tr. Mary Pardoe)

Selected Discography

1973 Frescobaldi: Toccate d'intavolatura di cimbalo. Das Alte Werk, Telefunken-Decca
1976 Scarlatti: Sonates. Philips
1978 Duphly - Balbastre: Musiques pour les princesses de France. Philips
1979 Couperin: Pièces de Clavecin. Astrée
1989 Froberger: Pièces de clavecin. Astrée
1990 Louis Marchand: Pièces de clavecin (1702). Astrée
1994 Mozart: 16 Sonatas pour violon et clavecin avec Gérard Poulet. Philips
1994 Bach: Le clavier bien tempéré. Astrée
1995 Bach: Fantaisies, toccatas et Fugues. Astrée
1999 Jacquet de la Guerre: Œuvres pour clavecin. Astrée
1999 Bach: Inventions et Sinfonias. Astrée
1999 Bach: Variations Goldberg. Astrée
2000 Froberger: L'intranquilité. Astrée
2000 Couperin: Les Pièces de clavessin. Astrée
2003 Couperin: Les Barricades mystérieuses / Pièces de clavecin. Astrée
2012 Francois Couperin, Aparte

External links

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	'''Blandine Verlet''' (born [[Paris]], February 27, 1942) is a [[harpsichord]]~~ist~~ and a harpsichord ~~teacher~~. Born into a musical family, she was the seventh of ten children, and in 1957 gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire, studying piano and harpsichord. Having decided on her specialism, she studied harpsichord with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris, Ruggero Gerlin in Siena and Ralph Kirckpatrick in the US. A significant competition prize in Paris in 1963 led to engagements in Italy and West Germany.		'''Blandine Verlet''' (born [[Paris]], February 27, 1942) is a [[harpsichord]]iste and a harpsichord teacherix. Born into a musical family, she was the seventh of ten children, and in 1957 gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire, studying piano and harpsichord. Having decided on her specialism, she studied harpsichord with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris, Ruggero Gerlin in Siena and Ralph Kirckpatrick in the US. A significant competition prize in Paris in 1963 led to engagements in Italy and West Germany.

	Verlet has been widely praised for her recordings of Bach, including the 'Goldberg Variations', but it is perhaps in the music of her compatriot Francois Couperin that she displays exceptional sensitivity and imagination. Verlet recorded Couperin's complete works in the 1970s and 80s, and in late 2011 she returned to re-record five 'ordres' on the period Henri Hemsch harpsichord. Verlet wrote a poem in celebration of Couperin which accompanied the release, the closing lines of which exemplify her great imaginative empathy with this key French composer:		Verlet has been widely praised for her recordings of Bach, including the 'Goldberg Variations', but it is perhaps in the music of her compatriot Francois Couperin that she displays exceptional sensitivity and imagination. Verlet recorded Couperin's complete works in the 1970s and 80s, and in late 2011 she returned to re-record five 'ordres' on the period Henri Hemsch harpsichord. Verlet wrote a poem in celebration of Couperin which accompanied the release, the closing lines of which exemplify her great imaginative empathy with this key French composer: