Jean-Baptiste Dupuits

(fl 1741–57). French composer and teacher of the harpsichord and hurdy-gurdy. He advertised himself as a student of (André) Campra and ‘other great masters’ in the Mercure (February 1753). His works are substantial in both quantity and quality, and merit something better than the total obscurity into which they have fallen, even though many are written for so unsatisfactory an instrument as the hurdy-gurdy. In 1753 Dupuits opened a public school of music