Maximilien Simon
Maximilien-Charles Simon (8 March 1797 – 20 September 1861) was a French composer.
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Maximilien Simon
- Born
- 1797 · Metz.
- Died
- 1861 · Metz.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer
- Movements
- classical music
- Honours
- Prix de Rome · Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Maximilien-Charles Simon (8 March 1797 – 20 September 1861) was a French composer.
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Simon was born on 19 ventôse of the Vth year (8 March 1797) in Metz, (Moselle). He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a pupil of Gossec, Méhul and Cherubini in composition and Berton in harmony. With the cantata Pyrame et Thisbé, based on a text by J. A. Vinaty, he won the Second Prix de Rome in 1823, after Édouard Boilly and Louis Constant Ermel. But he didn't have a musical career. He became a postal inspector in the department of Seine. In this capacity, he was made a Knight of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour by decree of 16 August 1860. The certificate was presented to him on 8 September of the year by State Councillor Auguste Stourm, General Director of the Swiss Post.
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