Chabanon, Michel-Paul-Gui de
(1730–1792)> COMPOSER
Chabanon, Michel-Paul-Gui de (1730, Saint-Domingue; 10 July 1792, Paris), composer, was a member of the French Academy. As a youth he had resisted a suggestion that he become a member of the Society of Jesus at Paris, where he studied violin and played this instrument in the amateur concerts directed by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. He had no compositions to his credit when he was elected to the Academy of Inscriptions on 11 December 1759, although he had collaborated on the Mercure de…