Jules Duprato
Compositions for: Bassoon
Parts for: Bassoon
Les trovatellesWikipediaJules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (20 August 1827 – 20 May 1892) was a 19th-century French composer.
A student of Aimé Leborne at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won first grand prix de Rome for musical composition in 1848.
After the success of his opéra comique Les Trovatelles, performed at Salle Favart in 1854 and his operetta M'sieu Landry, premiered at Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in 1856, expectations were high for the young composer. His following works, however, including the operas La Déesse et le Berger (1863), La Fiancée de Corinthe (1867), and Le Cerisier (1874), rapidly fell into obscurity.
His grave at Montmartre Cemetery is decorated with a medallion by sculptor Gabriel Thomas.
He was made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1886.