François Sudre

Jean-François Sudre (15 August 1787 – 3 October 1862) was a violinist, composer and music teacher who invented (beginning 1829) a musical language, named la Langue musicale universelle or Solrésol.

For the inventor of the sudrophone, see François Sudre (1844–1912).
Jean-François Sudre
Born(1787-08-15)15 August 1787
Albi, France
Died3 October 1862(1862-10-03) (aged 75)
Occupationviolinist, composer, music teacher
Known forInventor of Solrésol

Sudre was born in Albi in southern France on 15 August 1787. He studied music as a child and, at the age of eighteen, was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris on 12 May 1806, where he was taught violin by François Habeneck and harmony by Charles Simon Catel.

He created a group of musicians who were attempting to develop a way of transmitting language by music. Sudre trained Édouard Deldevez and Charles Larsonneur to play and interpret his alphabet. A given note would represent a letter or word of the alphabet. The trio toured France, answering questions from the audience using Sudre's violin. A military application was soon suggested: a bugler on a battlefield could transmit orders to a regiment by playing an appropriate tune. This promising hypothesis came to nothing because the system was too vulnerable to wind and weather. Sudre then offered the military a set of musical canons, but they refused the suggestion.[1]


References
  1. Peter Bloom, Music in Paris in the eighteen-thirties (1987).


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