Paul Charles Durant (1712-1769) - Douetto à Liuto Obligato
Performers: Duo Mignarda
Painting: Bartolomeo Bettera (1639-c.1688) - Still-life with musical instruments, books and playing cards
Further info: Principe und Principessa
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German composer. Son of Aloys Anton Durant (1677-1733), he received
early lessons as a boy choir of the cathedral of Pressburg. About 1739
he was active as a "musicien de la cour princière, "Paul Durang" in
Mannheim, a post he held until 1747. Then he moved to Frankfurt and from
there to Bayreuth where he worked as a 'Kammerlautenist' of Margrave
Frederick III of Brandenburg-Bayreuth until the court dissolution in
1769. As a composer, he wrote several collections of sonatas, duettos,
trios and concertos for the lute and various instruments. A manuscript
entitled: 'Collection of Trios and Concertos for the Lute, by Charles
Kohaut and Paul Charles Durant' is preserved in Brussels. Paul Charles
Durant's compositions are demanding both technically and musically. Like
Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720-1787), he mixes elements of the Galant
style and Empfindsamkeit.
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