Jean-Henri Levasseur
Jean-Henri Levasseur le jeune (born May 29, 1764 in Paris ; † 1823 there ) was a French cellist and composer .
Life
Levasseur's father was a singing teacher at the Royal Paris Opera and from 1755 to 1757 its inspecteur général . Jean-Henri Levasseur received lessons from the cellist Jean-Baptiste Cupis (* 1744), who also worked at the opera, and then from Jean-Louis Duport . On December 8, 1786 Levasseur made his debut with a concert by his teacher Duport at the Concert spirituel . After that he was principal cellist at the Paris Opera until 1823.
Occasionally he performed both in the chapel of Napoleon I and in the chapel of King Louis XVIII. on. After the Paris Conservatory was founded , Levasseur was one of the first generation of teachers in 1795. Together with the cellist Charles-Nicolas Baudiot , Charles-Simon Catel and the violinist Pierre Baillot , he wrote the Méthode de violoncelle du Conservatoire cello school for the Conservatory , which was published in 1805. Levasseur was a member of the Masonic lodges La Triple Harmonie and L'Olympique de la Parfaite Estime .
Works (selection)
Jean-Henri Levasseur composed almost exclusively textbooks and duos for the violoncello.
- Trois Sonates pour Violoncelle et Basse , op.1
- Exercices pour le Violoncelle , op.10
Individual evidence
- ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Entry in the Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique 1867
- ^ Valerie Walden: One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance 1740-1840. P. 20.
- ^ MGG : Volume 11, Column 27.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Levasseur, Jean-Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levasseur, Jean-Henri le jeune |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cellist and classical composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1823 |
| Place of death | Paris |