François Cupis

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François Cupis , Seigneur de Renoussard, dit "le cadet" (born November 10, 1732 in Paris , † October 13, 1808 there ) was a French cellist and composer .

Life

François Cupis was the youngest son of the dance and music teacher Ferdinand-Joseph Cupis (1684–1757), who moved from Brussels to Paris in 1720 . His older brother, Jean-Baptiste Cupis de Camargo, was a well-known violinist and composer. His sister was the ballerina Marie-Anne Cupis de Camargo , who became known under her stage name La Camargo .

François learned to play the cello from Martin Berteau , one of the early famous French cellists. François Cupis was accepted into the orchestra of the Concerts spirituels in 1764 and that of the Royal Paris Opera in 1667 . After the death of his sister Marie-Anne in 1770 he inherited a considerable fortune. In the same year François Cupis married Marie-Reine Thomé de Beaumont, who stipulated in the marriage contract that he had to leave the opera orchestra. At times he also left the orchestra of the Concerts spirituels in order to resume this activity between 1773 and 1777.

In the following years, François Cupis worked exclusively as a cello teacher and composer, so he called himself professeur de violoncelle on the title page of his Duos op. 5 . In this position Cupis wrote the cello school Méthode nouvelle et raisonée pour apprendre à jouer du violoncelle (Paris, 1772). Jean-Baptiste Bréval was one of his most important students . Cupis was also the author of a viola school. His estate register shows, among other things, that he owned three cellos and one viola. He had parted ways with a large harpsichord and a pianoforte that he owned as early as 1782.

His nephew Jean-Baptiste Cupis le jeune (* 1741) also learned from Martin Berteau and, like his uncle, was a cellist at the opera and a composer. Jean-Henri Levasseur is one of his students .

Act

Through his numerous compositions, which were of little musical inspiration but had educational significance, Cupis cemented his reputation for making the cello more important in France. In this regard, François Cupis stands in a row between his teacher Martin Berteau and Jean-Baptiste Barrière on the one hand and the brothers Jean-Louis and Jean-Pierre Duport on the other.

Works (selection)

In addition to several works mentioned by François-Joseph Fétis and cannot be found, François Cupis created:

  • 6 sonatas for cello and bass, op.1 (around 1761)
  • 6 duos for 2 cellos, op.2 (around 1767), lost
  • 6 duos for 2 cellos, op.3 (around 1770)
  • 3 duos, for 2 cellos, op.5 (1773)
  • Cello Concerto in D major (1783)
  • Concerto à grand orchester pour le violoncelle, L'orchestre comprend les cordes, 2 hautbois et 2 cors. (Paris, 1783)
  • 2 cello concertos, mentioned by Fétis and Ernst Ludwig Gerber (lost)
  • Arrangements: Recueil d'airs choisis des meilleurs auteurs for cello (1761)
  • Air de l'Aveugle de Palmire, et Menuet de Fischer , for 2 cellos (around 1784)
  • Recueil de petits airs variés et dialogués for 2 cellos, op.9 (around 1800)

Textbooks

  • Méthode nouvelle et raisonée pour apprendre à jouer du violoncelle ... (Paris, 1772)
  • Méthode d'alto, précédé d'un abrégé des principes de musique ... (Paris, around 1800)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julie Anne Sadie: Family Members Cupis de Camargo. In: Grove Music Online .
  2. ↑ Jean Gribenski: in MGG : Volume 5, columns 181-183.
personal data
SURNAME Cupis, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cupis, François de Renoussard le jeune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cellist and classical composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1808
Place of death Paris