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DUPORT, Jean-Louis  (1749-1819)

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Duport, Jean-Louis, famous French cellist, brother of Jean- Pierre Duport; b. Paris, Oct. 4, 1749; d. there, Sept. 7,1819. He made his public debutataConcert Spirituel(1 768); joined his brother in Berlin at the outbreak of the Revolution; returning in 1806, he became musician to Charles IV, the ex-king of Spain, at Marseilles; in 1812, returned to Paris; taught at the Paris Cons. (1813—15). He wrote 6 cello concertos, sonatas, duos, airs variées, 9 nocturnes (for harp and cello), etc. His Essai sur Le doigté du vioLonceLLe et La conduite de l’archet, auec une suite d’exercices was for decades a standard textbook, and practically laid the foundations of modern cello virtuosity.