Edouard Du Puy (c.1770-1822)
- Sinfonia 'Ungdom og galskab, eller List over list' (1806)
Performers: The Royal Danish Orchestra; Johan Hye-Knudsen (1896-1975, conductor)
Further info: Edouard Du Puy (1770-1822) - Flute Concerto in d, No.1
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French composer and singer. He studied violin with Charles Chabran and
piano with Jan Ladislav Dussek in Paris. In 1789, he was appointed
concertmaster at the court of Heinrich of Prussia in Rheinsberg,
replacing Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. He worked in Rheinsberg for four
years while studying harmonies under Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. In
1792 he was banished from Rheinsberg because he interrupted a Sunday
service by riding into church on horseback. After working as a touring
violinist in Germany and Poland he went to Stockholm in 1793, where he
joined the opera orchestra as a violinist. In 1795 he became a member of
the Swedish Academy of Music. In 1799, he fell out of favor with king
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden by praising Napoleon and he was banished from
Sweden and settled in Copenhagen. There he joined the opera orchestra as
a violinist. A highpoint in his stage career was the première of his
'Ungdom og galskab' (1806), for which he composed the music and sang the
role of Ritmester Rose. In 1809 he sang the first act of this opera
with his pupil Crown Princess Charlotte Frederika at Amalienborg Palace;
but scandal broke out later in the year when he was discovered in bed
with the princess and had to leave Denmark at two hours’ notice. He went
to Paris, but with the election of Napoleon’s commander Jean Baptiste
Bernadotte to the Swedish throne he was able to return to Stockholm. He
became court violinist and singer and from 1812 conductor. In 1814 he
became titular professor of the Swedish Academy of Music. As a composer,
he wrote several stage works, symphonic works, concertos, chamber music
as well as songs, ballets and a Requiem.
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