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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.
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