François Cupis de Renoussard
François Cupis de Renoussard Seigneur de Renoussard, called "le cadet" (10 November 1732 – 13 October 1808) was an 18th-century classical French composer, cellist and music educator. Biography. François Cupis de Renoussard was the son of , teacher of violin and rue de la Montagne in Brussels, and Marie-Anne de Smet. He was the brother of the famous ballerina Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710–1770) and violinist . He was a pupil of Martin Berteau. In 1750, he entered the Paris Opéra as "basse du grand chœur". He stayed there until 1770. Through his numerous compositions , which were musically of little inspiration, but had educational significance, Cupis strengthened his reputation for having given the cello in France a greater importance. François Cupis, on the one hand, stands in the same line between his teacher, Martin Berteau and Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and on the other, the brothers Jean-Louis and Jean-Pierre Duport. Works. In addition to several works, not mentioned by François-Joseph Fétis, François Cupis wrote: