Nicolas Lupot
Nicolas Lupot (born December 4, 1758 in Stuttgart , † August 14, 1824 in Paris ) was next to Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume the most influential French violin maker of the 19th century.
Lupot comes from a violin making family originally resident in Mirecourt , whose earliest member of the violin making trade was Jean Lupot (1652–1696). Nicolas father François Lupot (1725–1805), was working at the time of Nicolas' birth in Stuttgart as a “court lute and violin maker”. Lupot learned violin making from his father and worked in Orléans until 1794 . Then he went to Paris and worked there for the violin maker François Louis Pique (1758–1822). In 1798 Lupot was able to open his own workshop on rue de Grammont , which he moved to rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs in 1806 . In 1815 he was appointed royal violin maker. Lupot created excellent replicas of Stradivarius violins, which is why his contemporaries referred to him as the "French Stradivarius". His violins have a soft, round tone and are still in great demand as concert instruments today.
literature
- Les Trésors de la Lutherie Française du XIXe siècle. Paris c 1992
- Willibald Leo Frhr. v. Lütgendorff: The violins and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present day. 4th edition, 1st volume. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt AG, Frankfurt, 1922.
Web links
- Nicolas Lupot, http://www.mimo-db.eu/InstrumentMaker/Person/2023 & Lupot: Violon . Europeana. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
- Nicolas Lupot, the second big name in French violin making. A portrait
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lupot, Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French violin maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1824 |
| Place of death | Paris |