Charles Dieupart

Charles Dieupart (François) (* around 1667 , † around 1740 in London ) was a French violinist , harpsichordist and composer .

Life

It is not known who Dieupart's teachers were; his name appears for the first time in a tax list from 1695 in which he was listed as a musician. From 1703 at the latest, Dieupart lived in London, presumably traveling to England in the wake of Countess Elisabeth of Sandwich (1674–1757), the daughter of the Earl of Rochester, who had stayed in France for a long time for health reasons. In 1701 he dedicated his 6 suites for harpsichord to her, which were printed by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam. Because of this, it is likely that she was his student. On February 11, 1703 Dieupart played Arcangelo Corelli's violin sonatas accompanied by Gasparo Visconti at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane .

In 1704 in London he composed the music for the play Britain's Happiness by Peter Motteux , which was performed at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane. For a year he composed with Thomas Clayton (1673–1725 / 1730) and Nicola Francesco Haym on an Italian opera, which was also performed by Berlin-born Johann Christoph Pepusch and the flutist and oboist Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant . Several performances of operas by the Italian composers Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti followed . In 1711, the Theater Royal Drury Lane went bankrupt, not least due to the success of Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Rinaldo .

In the years 1711 and 1712 Dieupart organized concerts that were somewhat successful. He played the violin in Handel's orchestra and lived primarily from piano lessons, which at times gave him access to the most influential families in the country. In the last years of his life he was sick and impoverished. The music historian John Hawkins reported that Dieupart played Corelli violin solos in beer houses in a skillful and elegant manner. From 1740 his track is lost.

Works (selection)

• 6 harpsichord suites (Amsterdam, around 1701). The publisher Estienne Roger has published two different versions, the original version for harpsichord and a second edition in 1702, for melodic instrument and basso continuo (a common practice at the time).
• 6 sonatas for recorder and B. c. (London, 1717)
• About 30 airs between 1729 and 1731, published in The Musical Miscellany .
• Select Lessons for Harpsichord or Spinett (Walsh, London)
• Concerto à 5 for violin, strings and B. c.
• Concerto à 5 for flute, strings and B. c.
• 2 concerti grossi
• Concerto a due cori (double choir string concert)

Web links

• Works by and about Charles Dieupart in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sheet music and audio files by Charles Dieupart in the International Music Score Library Project