Albert Dupuis
Albert Dupuis was born in Verviers onMarch 1877. The son of a music teacher, Dupuis studied the finesses of the violin, the piano and the flute from the age of 8, at the conservatory in his hometown, Verviers, where also Guillaume Lekeu, composer of classical music, and Henri Vieuxtemps, composer and violinist, had taken residence. Orphaned at age 15, he worked as a tutor at the Grand Theatre of Verviers while pursuing his studies, including from Francis Duyzings for harmony. As he was a brilliant and precocious student, he composed his first comic opera already at the age of 18.
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