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Jean (Baptiste) Cappus (Dijon, 6 October 1689 – 10 March 1751) was a French composer. The second name ‘Baptiste’ is attested only on his 1730 book of viol music.

Life and works

Joungest son of François Cappus, organist, singer and composer in Dijon, and Anne Hervelin, Jean Cappus married Marie-Michelle Dotée on 17 October 1729. The couple had two sons, Louis and Nicolas. In 1734 Jean Cappus become director of the theatre in Dijon, he was ‘Pensionnaire de la Ville de Dijon’ (resident (artist) for the city of Dijon), ‘Maître Ordinaire de la Ville de Dijon’ (Ordinary Master for the city of Dijon), and musician for Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, prince of Condé (dit Louis IV, ou M. le Duc), governor of Burgundy (1710-1740). He worked regularly also as a composer for the Jesuit College in Dijon for whom he composed music for plays which we no longer posses; only the text has survived. Jean Cappus rented the Hôtel de Barres in Dijon in 1734, which nowadays is the square Carrelet de Loizy. Here he directed many productions up to his death. A curious narrative of his conducting is given by Lantin Damerey in 1838 : ‘Rameau played the harpsichord, and Cappus directed the orchestra with such vanity equal to a general of the army at the head of his troops. His wife took over when it was needed’[1]. Jean Cappus wrote several vocal and instrumental compositions, many of them lost, as two books of ‘Airs Sérieux et à Boire’ (1732). Among the surviving works, the first one of two books of ‘Pièces de Viole’, for viol and basso continuo (1730), a theoretical publication ‘Etrennes de Musique’ (1730), the cantata ‘Sémélé, ou La Naissance de Bacchus’ (1732).


Notes

  1. ^ Damerey, Lantin (1838). Les Deux Bourgognes. Dijon. pp. 54, 62.

References

  • Dunford, J., and Beuvard Y. (2017), "Jean (-Baptiste) Cappus – the forgotten violist: an inventory of his life and works", The Viola da Gamba Society Journal, vol. 11, pp. 46-64, ISSN-2513-9029


Category:1680s births Category:1750s deaths Category:French Baroque composers Category:French classical composers Category:French male classical composers Category:18th-century classical composers

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