Édouard Du Puy

Jean Baptiste Édouard Louis Camille Du Puy (1770 – 3 April 1822) was a Principality of Neuchâtel-born singer, composer, director, and violinist.

During this period, he also had an affair with Sophie Hagman[1] In 1799, he fell out of favor with king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden by praising Napoleon.

In the beginning, Du Puy made his living by tutoring in music, and gave a concert at the Royal Danish Theatre on 29 March 1800, playing among other things a concerto for violin that he himself had composed.

Among his other activities, Du Puy was one of the directors of the most esteemed social clubs in Copenhagen at the time called The Harmony (Danish: Harmonien).

In 1801, he joined the voluntary royal guard (Danish: Livjægerkorpset), and was made lieutenant in 1807 during the Battle of Copenhagen against the British during the Napoleonic Wars.

Du Puy had fathered a child during his time in Rheinsberg, but when he came to Copenhagen, he married Anna Louise Frederikke Müller in 1803, and had several affairs.

Although Du Puy applied for amnesty, it was of no use, and he left his family and traveled to Stockholm, where king Gustav IV Adolf had been deposed by a coup.