About Claude-Jean-François Despréaux
Lived 1750 – 1794 (aged 43–44). Claude-Jean-François Despréaux was a French violinist.
Claude-Jean-François Despréaux was a French musician and revolutionary, born in the 1740s and died in Paris on 11 August 1794.
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.
A pensioner of the Republic, he was a civil commissioner and a member of the popular society of the , and juror at the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793.
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).
He is the author of several sonatas for violin and harpsichord.
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