With technical language kept to a minimum, David Tunley focuses upon Couperin's concept of the 'perfection of music' through the union of French and Italian musical styles in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Drawing on reviews of salon music in periodicals such as La Gazette et revue musicale, Le Menestral and Le Monde musicale, David Tunley places romantic French song within the framework of the society which nurtured it.
First published in 1999, this biography from David Tunley draws on newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campoli’s early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist.