Nicolas Capron
Nicolas Capron (* before 1740 in Paris ; † September 14, 1784 ibid) was a French violinist and classical composer .
Life
Nicolas Capron was a student of Pierre Gaviniès and was one of the most famous French violinists of his time. His career began in 1756 at the Opéra-Comique and in the private orchestra of the King's General Manager, Alexandre Le Riche de La Pouplinière . From 1765 he was concertmaster at the Concert spirituel . Capron frequented all the major musical salons in the city, where the most famous musicians, philosophers and writers of France met every week. Nicolas Capron was valued as a virtuoso as well as an excellent teacher, his well-known students included Marie-Alexandre Guénin , Isidore Bertheaume , Simon Leduc and the child prodigy Mlle. Deschamps (later Louise Gautherot), who gave two violin concertos at the age of 11 played at the Concert spirituel, including a work by Capron and several times a concert by Giovanni Giornovichi . Nicolas Capron was a member of the Masonic Lodge Société Académique des Enfants d'Apollon .
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Capron primarily composed works for his instrument and, along with François-Joseph Gossec and Pierre Vachon, is considered to be one of the creators of the French string quartet , then known as quatuors concertants or quatuors dialogués . In his compositions he mostly adopts the three-movement form, the bithematic in the opening Allegro movements, and he also often used the lead from the Mannheim school . He was among the first French violinists that the damper prescribed.
- Premier Livre de sonates à violon seul et basse Op. 1 (1768)
- Be quartetti (1772)
- Be quartetti Op. 2 (1772) missing
- Six Duos pour 2 violons Op. 3 (1776)
- 2 violin concertos Op. 2
- 12 further violonin concerts (lost)
- A symphony 1781 (unpublished, lost)
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Nicolas Capron in the International Music Score Library Project
- Capron's works in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Timmermann: Gautherot, Louise, b. Deschamps. Sophie Drinker Institute , accessed on August 13, 2020 (CV).
- ↑ a b c Neal Zaslaw: Capron, Nicolas. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ Entry Nicolas Capron in the Larousse "Dictionnaire de la musique"
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SURNAME | Capron, Nicolas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French violinist and classical composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 1740 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1784 |
Place of death | Paris |