Félix Le Couppey

Félix Le Couppey ( born April 14, 1811 in Paris, † July 4, 1887 ibid ) was a French music teacher, pianist and composer.

Le Couppey studied at the Conservatoire de Paris by Victor Dourlen. Already seventeen he became an assistant teacher of harmony. He received in 1825 the first prize in piano and in 1828 in harmony and piano accompaniment.

In 1837 he became professor of solfège, 1843 as the successor of Dourlen teacher of harmony and accompaniment. From 1854 to 1886 he taught piano and wrote a larger number of educational works for the instrument. Among his pupils were, inter alia, the singer Baptiste Édouard, the composer Émile Jonas and the pianists Mathilde Bernard- Laviolette and Cécile Chaminade.

Works

• Cours de instrument A B C du piano
• L' alphabet
• Le Progres
• L' Agilitée
• Le Style
• La Difficulté