François Cupis de Renoussard (1732-1808)
- Duo (VI) Pour deux Violoncelles, oeuvre III (c.1770)
Performers: Michel Tοurnus (cello); Florian Lаurіdοn (cello)
Painting: Attributed to Filippo Falciatore (1718-1768) - Figures from the Commedia dell'arte dancing
Further info: François Cupis - Duos Op 3
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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.
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