Nicolas Capron

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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  • A symphony 1781 (unpublished, lost)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Timmermann: Gautherot, Louise, b. Deschamps. Sophie Drinker Institute , accessed on August 13, 2020 (CV).
  2. ↑ a b c Neal Zaslaw:  Capron, Nicolas. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ Entry Nicolas Capron in the Larousse "Dictionnaire de la musique"
personal data
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