Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i tana ako ki a Berteau, i timata a Jean-Pierre Duport i te 19 o ona tau i te Concert Spirituel, ko te pokapū mo te puoro kore-operatic i Paris. I waenga i te 1766 me te 1769 i whakamahia a Duport e te Rangatira o Conti, i muri i tana noho e rua tau ki Ingarangi me nga tau e rua ki Spain. I te tau 1773, i whakawhiwhia e Frederick the Great te Kingi o Prussia ki a Duport hei kaiwaiata matua o tana roopu puoro, a ka whakaae a Duport ka noho ki Berlin mo te toenga o tona oranga. Ko Duport te kaiako cello o te whanaunga o Frederick, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II, a, i muri tata mai i te koroni o Friedrich Wilhelm II hei kingi i te tau 1786, i whakawhiwhia a Duport ki te kawenga mo nga puoro rūma katoa i te marae. I te tau 1790, i uru atu te teina o Duport a Jean-Louis Duport ki a ia i Berlin, i rere i te French Revolution. I waenganui i a raua tokorua, me te tautoko a Friedrich Wilhelm II, ka noho a Berlin hei "maneta mo nga mahi hou mo te cello" tae noa ki te wikitoria a Napoleon i a Prussia me
I riro a Berlin i te tau 1806. I tenei wa ka hoki mai te teina ki Paris, i te mea ko te tuakana o Duport i noho ki Berlin tae noa ki tona matenga i te tau 1818.