Henri-Joseph Dupont was a Belgian violin

Violin

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ist, leader

Concertmaster

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, theatre director (manager) and conductor

Conducting

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Life

Dupont was born in Ensival

Ensival

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, Verviers

Verviers

Verviers is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. The Verviers municipality includes the old communes of Ensival, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Heusy...

. He studied the violin at the Liège and Brussels conservatoires and won a Belgian Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome (Belgium)

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 for composition

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 in 1863. After a four-year study trip around Europe, he was made leader of the Warsaw Opera House in 1867 and of the Imperial Theatre of Moscow in 1871.

He returned to Brussels in 1872 and settled there as professor of harmony at the Conservatoire and leader of the orchestra at the Théâtre de la Monnaie

La Monnaie

Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , or the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg is a theatre in Brussels, Belgium....

. He also co-directed La Monnaie from 1886 to 1889 with Alexandre Lapissida

Alexandre Lapissida

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, conducting performances starting from 1872/73 season, as well as often conducting the orchestra at London

London

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's Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

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. A few month before his death in Brussels

Brussels

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, he was made a member of the Académie royale de Belgique.