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Albert Dupuis

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Verviers, Belgium

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1877

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--- 1967

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Albert Dupuis took violin, piano and flute lessons from the age of 8 at the conservatory in Verviers, also the home of Guillaume Lekeu and Henri Vieuxtemps. Orphaned at 15, he worked as a coach at the Grand-Théâtre de Verviers while continuing his studies, notably with François Duyzings for harmony. A brilliant and precocious student, he was 18 when his first comic opera was created.
Noticed by Vincent d'Indy in 1897, he was invited to work with him at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. A time repeater of the choir of Saint-Eustache, he returned to Verviers in 1900 to get married. In 1903, he won the First Grand Prix of Rome in Belgium (not to be confused with the French Prix de Rome) with his cantata La Chanson d'Halewyn and on March 4 the premiere of his opera Jean-Michel took place at the Théâtre de la Change.
Appointed conductor of the Ghent Theater in 1905, he retired from the completed season to devote himself to composition. But when in 1907, the municipal council of Verviers offered him the post of director of the conservatory, he accepted it and occupied it until his retirement in 1947. During his lifetime, his works met with some success in Brussels and in the big cities of Belgium, his opera La Passion, is represented more than 150 times at La Monnaie. He also benefited from the esteem of his peers, such as Eugène Ysaÿe, dedicatee of several of his works and who made him known in the United States.