Paul Henrion

Paul Henrion, (20 July 1819 – 24 October 1901 [1]) was a 19th-century French composer.

Paul Henrion
Paul Henrion by Firmin Gillot, after a charge by Paul Hadol, 1861
Born	20 July 1819 Paris
Died	24 October 1901(1901-10-24) (aged 82) Paris
Occupation	Composer

President of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a goguettier, member of the goguette du Poulet sauté. In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in Le Figaro, the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous".[2] Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the pseudonym Henri Charlemagne.

References

1. FRBNF
2. Maxime Boucheron, « Petits tableaux parisiens », Le Figaro, 17 septembre 1882 Read online