Jean-Pierre Duport

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Jean-Pierre Duport (also called Duport l'aîné) (born November 27, 1741 in Paris , † December 31, 1818 in Berlin ) was a French cellist and composer .

Life

Jean-Pierre Duport learned to play the cello with Martin Berteau (1691–1771). In March 1761, the magazine Mercure de France reported on an appearance at the Concert spirituel , at which Duport successfully performed his own sonata. The same magazine wrote five years later " l'admirable et peut-être l'inimitable Monsieur Duport ". From 1762 to 1769 he belonged to the private chapel of Prince Louis François de Bourbon-Conti and also gave much-noticed concerts in the most important Parisian salons. Among his students were the Prince de Conti, but above all his younger brother Jean-Louis Duport . From 1768 Jean-Pierre Duport undertook various concert tours abroad, which took him to England, Spain, Denmark and, in 1773, to Germany. At a concert at the Potsdamer Hof, Frederick the Great offered him the position of first cellist at the Berlin Opera, as well as that of the Crown Prince's cello teacher.

In 1787, Duport was appointed superintendent of royal chamber music by King Friedrich Wilhelm II . He moved to Berlin with his wife, the singer Jeanne-Marie and the children. At the Potsdam court, Duport got to know the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (who composed the piano variations on a minuet by Mr. Duport KV 573) and Ludwig van Beethoven , who composed for and with Duport's advice the two cello sonatas op. 5 . In 1811 Jean-Pierre Duport retired from his offices.

effect

Duport is considered to be one of the founders of the German cellist school. Gustav Schilling (1803–1881) mentioned in his " Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Music ", " ... the greatness of his weighty bass figures " and " the soulful singing in the tenor region ". With his double fingering technique and the pizzicato basses he amazed his audience. Duport succeeded in a hitherto unknown way in exploiting the full range of notes of his instrument.

Works

  • Six sonates pour le violoncelle et basse op.1 (1766)
  • Six sonates pour le violoncelle et basse op.2 (1772)
  • Six sonates pour le violoncelle et basse op.3 (1773)
  • Six sonates pour le violoncelle et basse op.4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylvette Milliot: Le violoncelle en France from XVIIIe siècle. Édition Champion-Slatkine, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-05-100690-3 . (Dissertation Université Sorbonne Paris 4, 1981)
  2. ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 5, columns 1643–1644
personal data
SURNAME Duport, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duport l'Ainé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1818
Place of death Berlin