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Grove Music Online
Objet
Mary CYR / Valerie WALDEN : 'Jean-Pierre Duport', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed 23 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Jean-Pierre Duport [l’aîné]
(b Paris, 27 Nov 1741; d Berlin, 31 Dec 1818). Cellist and composer. A student of Berteau, he made his début at the Concert Spirituel in February 1761; […]
During the next two years Duport performed frequently at the Concert Spirituel and was always favourably received. From 1766 he appeared less often, while employed (until 1769) by the Prince of Conti. He then went to England and two years later to Spain. In 1773 he accepted an invitation from Frederick the Great of Prussia to become first cellist of the Königliche Kapelle in Berlin. There he taught the prince, Friedrich Wilhelm II, and supervised concerts at court from 1787 to 1806, when Prussia was defeated by Napoleon and the Kapelle dissolved. Duport remained with the court and received his pension in 1811."
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