Jules Duprato Explained

Jules Duprato
Birth Date:	20 August 1827
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]

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]}

Bibliography

• Clauzel, Paul (1895). "Jules Duprato, compositeur. Notice biographique", Mémoires de l'Académie de Nîmes, vol. 17, pp. 191–237. Nîmes: Clavel et Chastanier.
• Pierre, Constant, editor (1900). Le Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation. Documents historiques et administratifs. Paris: Imprimerie National. Read online at Google Books.
• Pougin, Arthur (1878). "Duprato (Jules-Laurent-Anacharsis)", pp. 291–292, in Biographie universelle des musiciens et Bibliographie générale de la musique par F.-J. Fétis. Supplément et complément, vol. 1. Paris: Firmin-Didot. Read online at Google Books.
• Remy, Alfred (1919). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: G. Schirmer. Read online at Google Books.
• Wagstaff, John (1992). "Duprato, Jules Laurent (Anacharsis)", vol. 1, p. 1280, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 volumes, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. . Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required).

Notes and References

1. Birth certificate at the Chancellery of the Legion of Honour on base Léonore.
2. Wagstaff 1992.
3. Pougin 1878, p. 291; Remy 1919, p. 225.
4. http://data.bnf.fr/14792893/aime_le_borne/ Aimé LeBorne
5. Pierre 1900, p. 775 "Hinard (Jules-Laurent-Anacharsis Duprato)".
6. Clauzel 1895, pp. 204–206.
7. Clauzel 1895, .
8. Pierre 1900, p. 442 "Duprato (Jules-Laurent-Anacharsis)".
9. Clauzel 1895, p. 236.
10. Remy 1919, .
11. http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article235 Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs
12. Nouvelles archives de l'art français, tome XIII,, Charavay frères libraires de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1897 (Read online)