François Cupis de Renoussard (1732-1808) - Duo Pour deux Violoncelles (c.1770)
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Composer: François Cupis de Renoussard (1732-1808)
Work: Duo (VI) Pour deux Violoncelles, oeuvre III (c.1770)
Performers: Michel Tοurnus (cello); Florian Lаurіdοn (cello)
Duo Pour deux Violoncelles (c.1770)
1. Allegretto 0:00
2. Romanza 5:36
3. Presto 8:55
Painting: Isabelle Pinson (1769-1855) - Musizierende Gesellschaft im Park
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François Cupis [Cupis de Renoussard] [le cadet]
(Paris, 10 November 1732 - Paris, 13 October 1808)
French composer and cellist, youngest son of Ferdinand-Joseph Cupis (1684-1757), teacher of violin and 'maître à danser'. Brother of the violinist and composer Jean-Baptiste Cupis de Camargo (1711-1788), the horn player Charles Cupis and the ballerina Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710-1770), he apparently had a wild youth. In 1751 when he was a cello student under Martin Berteau at the Collège des Quatre Nations, he was arrested for stealing linen from his father and selling it. In 1759 action was again brought against him (and his elder brother Charles, a horn player and member of the Académie Royale de Musique orchestra, 1746-50) for drunkenness. According to Spectacles de Paris, he was a member of the Concert Spirituel orchestra, 1764-71 and 1774-77, and a member of the Académie Royale de Musique orchestra, 1767-70. In order to marry Marie-Reine Thomé de Beaumont (6 November 1770) he had to sign a renunciation of the theatre and resign his post at the Opéra. Despite his youth rebellious years he became a creditable cellist and composer mainly by his promoting of the cello in France. As a composer, he wrote chamber music and, at least, two cello concertos.