Salomon
(1661–1731)> COMPOSER
Salomon (1661, Provence; 1731, Versailles), composer, came to Paris as a boy to study the bass viol under Sainte-Colombe. He obtained a position in the royal chapel when he was 51 years old according to Fétis, who contradicts the Parfaict brothers’ statement that Salomon was much younger at the time of his entrance into royal service. His two contributions to the repertory of the Royal Academy of Music were lyric tragedies: Médée et Jason in 1713 and Théonoé (for Théonoé, see eighteenth-century…