Emanuel de Beaupuis

Beaupuis was born into a musical family in Naples, and studied at the Conservatorium from age 12 to 18, his main teacher being Beniamino Cesi, one of Thalberg's pupils.

He lived and worked in Adelaide from October 1893, with a series of well-received concerts together with violinist Bessie Doyle and contralto Ada Crossley[5] to November 1895[6] He toured Australia and South Africa, before settling in Sydney in 1896.

Notable Australian pupils include Roy Ewing Agnew,[12] B. Schubach,[13] Hilda Aiken[14] Bessie Robertson,[15] who received further instruction in Europe from Bruno Gortatowski and Teresa Carreño, a costly exercise.

[16] He taught Roy Mackey,[17] Roy Basil Mackay,[18] Mrs Walter Treleaven, Marjorie Percival,[19] Maggie Chisholm,[20] and Louisa King-Hall (daughter of George King-Hall)[21] Teachers of pianoforte who advertised having studied under de Beaupuis include C. A. Vaughn of Queanbeyan[22] and Ethel Wyndham of Cowra, later Grafton.

[23] Miss R. Craig of Penrith,[24] Zita Watkins, Patience Hardwicke,[25] He encouraged Mrs Charles Huenerbein to conduct classes in piano accompaniment, emphasizing the skills of sight reading, transposition, and modulation.

Her daughter Marjorie Lord was introduced into Sydney high society by her cousin, Mrs Geoffrey Evan Fairfax,[35] née Lena Hixson.