Frédéric Duvernoy (musician, 1765)

Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (born October 16, 1765 in Montbéliard , † July 19, 1838 in Paris ) was a French horn player , music teacher and composer .

Live and act

Duvernoy became horn player in the orchestra of the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1788 and two years later switched to the music corps of the National Guard . In 1797 he switched to the Paris Opera Orchestra , where he became principal horn in 1799.

In 1801 he gave up this job as he was appointed to the "Chapelle de l'Émpereur". Together with his brother Charles and his colleagues Martin Pierre d'Alvimare , Thomas Delcambre , Étienne Ozi and the brothers Rodolphe and Jean Nicolas Kreutzer , he was responsible for the musical entertainment at Napoleon's receptions .

From 1795 Duvernoy taught at the Conservatoire de Paris . He wrote a Méthode pour cor mixte and composed, in addition to numerous chamber music works, twelve horn concertos. His brother, the clarinetist Charles Duvernoy , was the father of the composer Henri Duvernoy .

Works

12 concerts for horn
8 fantasies for pianoforte and horn
4 divertimenti for pianoforte and horn
3 serenades for pianoforte and horn
3 trios for pianoforte, violin and horn
several nocturnes for horn and harp, partly in collaboration with François-Joseph Naderman and Martin Pierre Dalvimare

literature

Theodore Baker (conception), Nicolas Slonimsky (arrangement): Dictionnaire bibliographique des musiciens, vol. 1 . Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-221-06510-7 .

Web links

Méthode pour le Cor : Public domain edition in the International Music Score Library Project
Literature by and about Frédéric Duvernoy in the catalog of the German National Library
12 horn concerts by Duvernoy at www.corno.de

personal data
SURNAME	Duvernoy, Frédéric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Duvernoy, Frédéric Nicolas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French horn player, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montbeliard
DATE OF DEATH	July 19, 1838
Place of death	Paris