Jules Duprato

Jules Duprato

Jules Duprato.
Portrait by Gustave Boulanger
Born 20 August 1827
Nîmes
Died 20 May 1892(1892-05-20) (aged 64)
Paris
Occupation Composer

Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (20 August 1827 – 20 May 1892)[1] was a 19th-century French composer.[2][3]

Biography

A student of Aimé Leborne[4] at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won first grand prix de Rome for musical composition in 1848.[2][5]

After the success of his opéra comique Les Trovatelles, performed at Salle Favart in 1854 and his operetta M'sieu Landry, premiered at Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in 1856, expectations were high for the young composer.[6] His following works, however, including the operas La Déesse et le Berger (1863), La Fiancée de Corinthe (1867), and Le Cerisier (1874), rapidly fell into obscurity.[7]

He was appointed a professor of harmony at the conservatory in 1871.[8] He published several arrangements of La Marseillaise, wrote music for male chorus and one symphony.[9] His pupils included Robert Planquette,[2] Georges Douay,[2] and Antoine Simon.[10]

Duprato's grave site

His grave at Montmartre Cemetery is decorated with a medallion by sculptor Gabriel Thomas.[11][12]

He was made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1886.[5][8]

Notes

  1. Birth certificate at the Chancellery of the Legion of Honour on base Léonore.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wagstaff 1992.
  3. Pougin 1878, p. 291; Remy 1919, p. 225.
  4. For Aimé Leborne, see Q1028877 at Wikidata.
  5. 1 2 Pierre 1900, p. 775 "Hinard (Jules-Laurent-Anacharsis Duprato)".
  6. Clauzel 1895, pp. 204–206.
  7. Clauzel 1895, pp. 209–212, 216–217, 219–220, 236–237.
  8. 1 2 Pierre 1900, p. 442 "Duprato (Jules-Laurent-Anacharsis)".
  9. Clauzel 1895, p. 236.
  10. Remy 1919, p. 876.
  11. Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs
  12. Nouvelles archives de l'art français, tome XIII, p. 267-268, Charavay frères libraires de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1897 (Read online)

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