Jean-Louis Duport
Jean-Louis Duport , also called Duport le cadet or Duport le jeune, (born October 4, 1749 in Paris , † September 7, 1819 there ) was a French cellist and composer .
Life
Jean-Louis Duport began taking dance and violin lessons before taking cello lessons from his older brother Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818). His first appearance at the Concert spirituel in 1768 was so successful that from then on he was in demand in the most important Parisian salons, for example with the Baron de Bagge, where he met Luigi Boccherini , with the Prince Henri-Louis-Marie de Rohan-Guéménée, with the Loge Olympique , the Concert des amateurs or at private concerts by Queen Marie-Antoinette . Giovanni Battista Viotti , with whom he was on friendly terms, composed three divertissements for him. The Englishman John Crosdill (1751-1825) was one of his students.
After 1780 Duport made numerous concert tours that took him to England, Spain and Germany. After the outbreak of the revolution, Duport fled to his brother in Berlin, where he took over his position as first cellist at the opera and also performed at court.
After 1806 Duport returned to France, but could not get a job in Paris. Instead, he found a job in the court orchestra of the exiled Spanish King Charles IV in Marseille. In 1812 Duport returned to Paris, where he gave several concerts and was employed as first cellist in the imperial chapel and in the chamber orchestra of Empress Marie-Louise . From 1813 to 1816 he taught at the Conservatoire de Paris .
Jean-Louis Duport was a member of the Parisian Masonic lodges Saint Jean d'Écosse du Contrat social (from 1781) and the Lodge Olympique de la Parfaite Estime (from 1786).
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Duport composed 6 concertos for violoncello and orchestra (1785–1788) and numerous chamber music works with violoncello in various formations.
instrument
Jean-Louis Duport played a violoncello by Antonio Stradivari from 1711, which Duport's son (cellist and later piano manufacturer) sold in 1842 for 25,000 francs to cellist Auguste-Joseph Franchomme . From 1974 it was played by Mstislav Rostropovich and is one of the most valuable cellos under the name Duport .
Web links
- CVs of the Duport brothers on the website Cello.org (in English)
- Sheet music and audio files by Jean-Louis Duport in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duport, Jean-Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duport le cadet; Duport le jeune |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cellist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1819 |
| Place of death | Paris |