Auguste Dupont Explained

Auguste Dupont
Birth Date:9 February 1827
Birth Place:Ensival (Verviers)
Occupation:Pianist, composer

Auguste Dupont, full name Pierre-Auguste Dupont, (9 February 1827 - 17 December 1890) was a Belgian pianist and composer.[1]

A laureate of the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he was a student of Jules Jalheau, he travelled for a time as a musician in Germany, England and the Netherlands. While performing in Berlin, he was introduced to Giacomo Meyerbeer who gave him work for a time and who often mentions him in his diary.[2] In 1850, he became a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He composed several major pieces for concerts and pieces of chamber music.[3] He was also the editor of the series École de piano du Conservatoire de Bruxelles, forty booklets of classical masterpieces.[4] He became a teacher of chamber music in 1886.[5]

His brother was the violinist and composer Joseph Dupont.

Works

In 1862, L'Illustration p. 197, mentioned the following works:[20]

Honours

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dupont-Auguste.htm Site Bach Cantatas
  2. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1 January 2002
  3. [L'Illustration]
  4. https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=14680&versionNumber=1 La série en ligne
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=HxMdPpUh-3EC Robert Wangermée, François Joseph Fétis, Correspondance, Éditions Mardaga, 2006, p. 499
  6. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer, op.cit.
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=--tTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Auguste+Dupont+pianiste&pg=PA94 Caecilia: algemeen muzikaal tijdschrift van Nederland, 13e année, nr 9, 1 May 1856,
  8. Caecilia 1856, op.cit. p. 194
  9. Site Bach Cantatas, op.cit.
  10. http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_A_Day_in_Arctic_History_The_Tickalicktoo_Polka/ nunatsiaqonline.ca
  11. http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/8/8a/IMSLP200903-SIBLEY1802.20086.c7f3-39087011235910score.pdf en ligne
  12. Web site: en ligne . 2017-12-25 . 2017-12-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171225203307/http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP72379-PMLP145080-5741.DupontA-Suite5tette.pdf . dead .
  13. http://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/U00001761834/CLASSICAL muziekweb.nl
  14. Web site: en ligne . 2017-12-25 . 2017-12-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020806/http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/27/IMSLP113885-PMLP232501-ADupontTocatelleOp26BW.pdf . dead .
  15. Web site: en ligne . 2016-04-27 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180052/http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/b/be/IMSLP78984-SIBLEY1802.12575.4a39-39087009357817score_pp_1-50.pdf . dead .
  16. http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Danses_dans_le_style_ancien,_Op.37_(Dupont,_Auguste) en ligne
  17. http://pianoeducation.org/pnoonhnd.html Site pianoeducation.org
  18. http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-d/dupont-auguste Auguste Dupont sur le site Grande Musica
  19. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?swid=58653887 site classify.oclc.org
  20. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027545261;view=1up;seq=209 en ligne
  21. https://books.google.com/books?id=--tTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Auguste+Dupont+pianiste&pg=PA94 Caecilia: algemeen muzikaal tijdschrift van Nederland, 14th year, 1 January 1857, p. 12

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