Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Jean-Pierre Duport mụchara ihe n'aka Berteau, ọ malitere ọrụ ya mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na itoolu na Concert Spirituel, nke bụ́ ebe a na-akụ egwú na-abụghị egwú opera na Paris n'oge ahụ. N'agbata afọ 1766 na 1769 Duport bụ onye ọrụ nke Prince nke Conti, mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ nọrọ afọ abụọ na England na afọ abụọ na Spain. N'afọ 1773, Eze Prussia bụ́ Frederick Onye Ukwu gwara Duport ka ọ bụrụ onyeisi ndị na-akụ egwú cello n'òtù egwú ya, Duport kwetakwara ma nọrọ na Berlin ruo mgbe ọ nwụrụ. Duport bụ onye nkuzi cello nke nwa nwanne Frederick, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm nke Abụọ, na n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe e chiri Friedrich Wilhelm nke Abụọ eze na 1786, e nyere Duport ọrụ maka egwu ụlọ niile n'obí eze. N'afọ 1790, nwanne Duport nke obere bụ Jean-Louis Duport sonyeere ya na Berlin, na-agba ọsọ na mgbanwe France. N'etiti ha abụọ, na nkwado nke Friedrich Wilhelm nke Abụọ, Berlin ghọrọ "magnet maka ihe ọhụrụ maka cello" ruo mgbe Napoleon meriri Prussia na
weghaara Berlin n'afọ 1806. N'oge a, nwanne ya nwoke nke nta laghachiri Paris, ebe Duport nke okenye nọgidere na Berlin ruo ọnwụ ya na 1818.