Sujet
Grove Music Online
Objet
Neal ZASLAW: 'Duval, François', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 7 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Duval, François (b Paris, 1672/3; d Versailles, 27 Jan 1728). French violinist and composer. He was the son of a Parisian dancing-master of the same name. It is probably the senior Duval who was listed in the highest rank of the ‘Communauté des maîtres á dancer et jouers d’instruments de la ville et faubourgs de Paris’in 1695 and who danced at the Paris Opéra in 1711 in a revival of Lully’s Cadmus. […] It is not known how or whether this branch of the family was related to the other Duvals (nearly a dozen) who practised music in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries.
[…] By 1704 he was in the service of the Duke of Orléans, an enthusiastic musical amateur to whom he dedicated his first opus. This was a set of violin sonatas, the first to be published in France […]
Duval had another patron, the Duke of Noailles, to whom he dedicated his op.2. The duke brought Duval to court to play for Louis XIV, and shortly afterwards Duval brought out an op.3, dedicating it to the king […]. [in 1714] he became a member of the 24 Violons du Roi and played for the king Couperin’s Concerts royaux with the composer at the harpsichord, Hilaire Verloge on the viola da gamba and Dubois on the bassoon.
On 13 November 1713 Duval married Monique Augustine de Behague; the couple apparently had no children, for after his death the only heirs named were his widow and two sisters. Duval spent his last 14 years at the French court, where his contemporaries considered him one of the best of the king’s violinists."
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