Louis François Dauprat
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Louis François Dauprat was a French
horn
player, composer and music professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. He played and taught only natural horn, but was also very interested in the first experiments with flaps horns. He successfully ensured the development of a distinctively French school of playing, marginally influenced by the invention of the valve horn.
From 1806 to 1808 he was the principal horn in the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
and from 1808 to 1811 he worked for the Paris Opera
Orchestra and the Paris Conservatory. He succeeded his teacher as professor in the Conservatory and held that position until 1833 when he was succeeded by the famous solo horn player Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy. He wrote numerous compositions specifically for his students for educational purposes only. Among them was, in particular, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
. Shortly after that he was appointed principal horn in the royal and imperial court orchestras and permanent soloist of chamber music by King Louis Philippe.
Dauprat wrote the textbook Méthode pour cor alto et cor basse of much historical and methodological interest and left five concertos for horn and orchestra and various compositions for chamber ensembles.
Atribution
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
horn
Horn (instrument)
The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
player, composer and music professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. He played and taught only natural horn, but was also very interested in the first experiments with flaps horns. He successfully ensured the development of a distinctively French school of playing, marginally influenced by the invention of the valve horn.
Biography
Dauprat first studied in the Paris Conservatory with Joseph Kenna and in 1795, setting up in hs horn class where he won the 1798 "Premier Prix". As a prize, he was awarded with an experimental horn model made by Lucien Joseph Roux's studio, now one of the most impressive pieces in the museum of the Paris Conservatory.From 1806 to 1808 he was the principal horn in the orchestra of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée premiered in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets....
and from 1808 to 1811 he worked for the Paris Opera
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique...
Orchestra and the Paris Conservatory. He succeeded his teacher as professor in the Conservatory and held that position until 1833 when he was succeeded by the famous solo horn player Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy. He wrote numerous compositions specifically for his students for educational purposes only. Among them was, in particular, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
Fromental Halévy
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy , was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.-Early career:...
. Shortly after that he was appointed principal horn in the royal and imperial court orchestras and permanent soloist of chamber music by King Louis Philippe.
Dauprat wrote the textbook Méthode pour cor alto et cor basse of much historical and methodological interest and left five concertos for horn and orchestra and various compositions for chamber ensembles.
Works
- 1st Horn Concerto, Op.1
- 2nd Horn Concerto, Op.9
- 3rd Horn Concerto for Alto and Bass Horns, Op.18
- 4th Horn Concerto Hommage a la Memoire de Punto, Op.19
- 5th Horn Concerto for Alto and Bass Horns, Op.21
- Mélodie, Op.25
- Concertino for Horn Ensemble
- Trios for 3 Horns
- Sextet, op.10 for 6 Horns in different tunes
- Several works for Horn and Piano
- Sonata for Horn and Harp, Op.2
- 3 Quintet for Horn and String Quartet, Op.6
Sources
- Dauprat, Louis François in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), Bd. 3, Bärenreiter-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1986, S. 29.
Atribution
- This work is a complete translation of the corresponding article on the German and Russian Wikipedia
External links
- Compositions by: Dauprat, Louis-François on the International Music Score Library ProjectInternational Music Score Library ProjectThe International Music Score Library Project , also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle...