Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin (19 September 1705 – c. 1778) was a French harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin (court musician to the King of France).
She became active at the French court from at least 1729 (she is mentioned in an article in the Mercure de France).
[2] This was a feature of French courtly music in which musicians were able to bequeath or sell their positions in a system called survivance.
[3] The title Ordinaire is the most junior rank in the hierarchy of the court's musicians and reflected her age and relative inexperience.
[1] On 25 November 1741, she sold her office to Bernard de Bury (1720–1785) for 6000 livres, as she was unable to continue in it herself for reasons of health.