Auguste Dupont
{{Short description|Belgian pianist and composer (1827–1890)}}
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| birth_date = 9 February 1827
| birth_place = Ensival (Verviers)
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| death_place = Brussels
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Auguste Dupont, full name Pierre-Auguste Dupont, (9 February 1827 - 17 December 1890) was a Belgian pianist and composer.
[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dupont-Auguste.htm Site Bach Cantatas]
A laureate of the Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he was a student of Jules Jalheau, he travelled for a time as a musician in Germany, England and the Netherlands. While performing in Berlin, he was introduced to Giacomo Meyerbeer who gave him work for a time and who often mentions him in his diary.The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1 January 2002] In 1850, he became a professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He composed several major pieces for concerts and pieces of chamber music.L'Illustration, 1862 {{p.|197}} He was also the editor of the series École de piano du Conservatoire de Bruxelles, forty booklets of classical masterpieces.[https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=14680&versionNumber=1 La série en ligne] He became a teacher of chamber music in 1886.[https://books.google.com/books?id=HxMdPpUh-3EC Robert Wangermée, François Joseph Fétis, Correspondance, Éditions Mardaga, 2006, p. 499]
His brother was the violinist and composer Joseph Dupont.
Works
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- Pluie de mai, Étude de trilles pour piano (Op.2) The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer, op.cit. {{p.|194}}
- Grande Capriccio sur Robert le Diable [https://books.google.com/books?id=--tTAAAAcAAJ&dq=Auguste+Dupont+pianiste&pg=PA94 Caecilia: algemeen muzikaal tijdschrift van Nederland, 13e année, nr 9, 1 May 1856, {{p.|194}}]
- Le Staccato Perpétuel (Op.31) Caecilia 1856, op.cit. p. 194
- Grande galop fantastique
- Contes du foyer (Op. 12) Site Bach Cantatas, op.cit.
- The Tickalicktoo Polka, Dedicated to the Esquimaux Family, Who Appeared Before Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, Feb. 3, 1854 [http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_A_Day_in_Arctic_History_The_Tickalicktoo_Polka/ nunatsiaqonline.ca]
- Morgane [http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/8/8a/IMSLP200903-SIBLEY1802.20086.c7f3-39087011235910score.pdf en ligne]
- Suite en quintette {{Cite web |url=http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP72379-PMLP145080-5741.DupontA-Suite5tette.pdf |title=en ligne |access-date=2017-12-25 |archive-date=2017-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225203307/http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP72379-PMLP145080-5741.DupontA-Suite5tette.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- Intermezzo - barcarolle [http://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/U00001761834/CLASSICAL muziekweb.nl]
- Tocatelle pour piano (Op. 26) {{Cite web |url=http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/27/IMSLP113885-PMLP232501-ADupontTocatelleOp26BW.pdf |title=en ligne |access-date=2017-12-25 |archive-date=2017-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226020806/http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/2/27/IMSLP113885-PMLP232501-ADupontTocatelleOp26BW.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- Chanson hongroise (Op. 27) {{Cite web |url=http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/b/be/IMSLP78984-SIBLEY1802.12575.4a39-39087009357817score_pp_1-50.pdf |title=en ligne |access-date=2016-04-27 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180052/http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/b/be/IMSLP78984-SIBLEY1802.12575.4a39-39087009357817score_pp_1-50.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- Berceuse en la mineur pour piano (Op. 35)
- Trois Danses dans le style ancien (Op.37) [http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Danses_dans_le_style_ancien,_Op.37_(Dupont,_Auguste) en ligne]
- Fantasie et Fugue (for the right hand)(Op.41) [http://pianoeducation.org/pnoonhnd.html Site pianoeducation.org]
- Roman en dix pages (Op. 48)
- Piano Concerto in F minor (Op. 49)
- La Pensée [http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-d/dupont-auguste Auguste Dupont sur le site Grande Musica]
- Morceaux Caractéristiques
- Feuille d'album : duettino pour piano et harpe ou 2 pianos (Op. 58)[http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?swid=58653887 site classify.oclc.org]
- Valse expressive pour piano (Op. 60)
In 1862, L'Illustration p. 197, mentioned the following works:[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027545261;view=1up;seq=209 en ligne]
- Poème d'amour, Sept chants lyriques [op. 54]
- Reminiscences Pastorales
- Rêveries sur l'eau
- Trio en sol mineur pour piano, violon et violoncelle (Op. 33)
- Grand quatuor
- Sonate
- Marche druïdique
- Une Chanson de jeune fille (Op.18)
- Chanson du feu
- Danse des ombres
- Danse des Almées
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Honours
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