Robert Léaumont (1762-1814)
- Duo concertant (Re majeur)
pour le clavecin ou le forte-piano et violoncelle (1786)
Performers: Arthur Loesser (1894-1969, pianoforte); Luigi Silva (1903-1961, cello)
Further info: Music in America
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French pianist, composer and teacher. Son of Gabriel Henri de Castille
de Leaumont (1723-1795) and Perrine Victoire Therese Bezin (?-1794), he
was born into an aristocratic family in the French West Indies. He
served in the American Revolutionary War as an officer in the French
Régiment d’Agenois, and was wounded at the battle of Yorktown in October
1781. After the war he was made a Chevalier of the Royal Order of St.
Louis and returned to his life as a wealthy planter and amateur
musician. In 1784 he published his 'Six Trios Concertants Pour deux
Violons et Basse' and in 1786 his 'Duo concertant pour le clavecin ou le
forte-piano et violoncelle', both in Paris. Around 1795, and after the
Haitian Revolution stripped his fortune out, he fled to the United
States. From 1796 he was active at the Federal Street Theatre in Boston
as a violinist and orchestra leader. He relocated to Charleston, South
Carolina by December 1799, when he advertised there to teach singing,
piano, violin, cello, and fencing. For the remainder of his life, he was
an active concert performer, theater musician and music teacher in
Charleston.
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