Paul Henrion
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Paul Henrion, (23 June 1817 – 24 October 1901 ) was a 19th-century French composer. President of the
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music or SACEM () is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers, and music publisher A mus ...
of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a
goguettier A goguette () was a singing society in France and Belgium, and its members were called ''goguettiers''. As well as providing venues for informal solo and ensemble singing, goguettes also served as places for drinking, socialising, and recreation. ...
, member of the . In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in ''
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'', the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous".Maxime Boucheron, « Petits tableaux parisiens », Le Figaro, 17 septembre 1882 Read online
/ref> Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the
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Henri Charlemagne.


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French Romantic composers Composers from Paris 1817 births 1901 deaths {{France-musician-stub