Claude-Jean-François Despréaux

Claude-Jean-François Despréaux was a French musician and revolutionary, born in the 1740s and died in Paris on 11 August 1794.

For other uses, see Despréaux.

Biography

The son of Jean-François Despréaux, oboist of the Académie royale de musique who retired in 1767, and Marie-Anne d'Arras, Louis-Félix's older brother (1746-1813) and Jean-Étienne Despréaux, Despréaux made his debut in 1759 as violinist. After he became head of the concertmasters in 1771, he retired in 1782.[1][2]

A pensioner of the Republic, he was a civil commissioner and a member of the popular society of the section de Brutus, and juror at the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793.[3][1][2][4]

Desperate following the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre, he committed suicide with a shotgun in his apartment, at 20 rue du Sentier, on 24 thermidor an II (11 August 1794).[1][2][4][5]

He is the author of several sonatas for violin and harpsichord.[2]

References
  1. Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt (1869). Tableaux de la Révolution Française publiés sur les papiers inédits du département de la police secrète de Paris. Vol. 2. Leipzig: Veit. p. 226.
  2. François-Joseph Fétis (1877). Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique. Vol. 3 : « Désargus - Gibbons ». Firmin Didot et Cie. p. 6. ISBN 9781421200934.
  3. Albert Soboul, Raymonde Monnier (1985). Répertoire du personnel sectionnaire parisien en l'an II. Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 159. ISBN 9782859440770.
  4. Castil-Blaze (1855). L'Académie impériale de musique. Vol. 2. Castil-Blaze. p. 46.
  5. Alphonse Aulard (1898). Paris pendant la réaction thermidorienne et sous le Directoire : recueil de documents pour l'histoire de l'esprit public à Paris. Vol. I : « Du 10 thermidor an II au 21 prairial an III ». Paris: L.Cerf. p. 24.
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