Antoine Dieppo (30 November 1808 – 16 February 1878) was a French

trombonist The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

Life

Born in

Amersfoort Amersfoort () is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, about 20 km from the city of Utrecht and 40 km south east of Amsterdam. As of 1 December 2021, the municipality had a population of 158,531, making it the second- ...

, Dieppo was a soloist at the Opéra-Comique and the

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire The Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire was a symphony orchestra established in Paris in 1828. It gave its first concert on 9 March 1828 with music by Beethoven, Rossini, Meifreid, Rode and Cherubini. Administered by the philh ...

. He was much appreciated by Berlioz who highlighted the trombone in his compositions for him. In 1833, Luigi Cherubini reopened the trombone class of the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

by entrusting it to Félix VobaronFélix Vobaron
on BnF and being directed by Dieppo. A trombone class was created in 1794-1795 with the law of 16 Thermidor year 3 (3 August 1795). The musicians of the

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were then teachers. The class was then closed in 1802. A certain Pierre-François Marcillac was the last teacher. Dieppo was professor of

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

at the

from 1836 to 1871. Dieppo lived in a period when the trombone was little recognized by composers. Despite the emergence of the symphony orchestra, composers made little use of it as a soloist:

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

gave it brief appearances, Mozart used it in his operas but never considered it a solo instrument (despite the solo of the Requiem). After the reopening of the class in 1833, each teacher had his or her own working method, corresponding to the evolution of the trombone in their time. The Dieppo

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is one of the first reference methods, copies of which can still be consulted today. Dieppo died in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

at the age of 69.

References

Sources

* A History of the Trombone / David M. Guion (Scarecrow Press, 2010) and source material used in writing it * Trombone / Trevor Herbert (Yale University Press, 2006) * French Music for Low Brass Instruments / J. Mark Thompson and Jeffrey Jon Lemke (University of Indiana Press, 1994) * My Musical Life and Recollections / Jules Rivière (Sampson, Low, Marston, 1893)

External links

Biography

Site du trombone
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