# Albert Guillon

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'''Albert Guillon''' (1801 – April 1854) was a French composer.

==Career==
Born in [Meaux](/source/Meaux), in 1801, Guillon had lessons at the school of the cathedral [Notre Dame de Paris](/source/Notre_Dame_de_Paris) with [Pierre Desvignes](/source/Pierre_Desvignes), before he joined the [Conservatoire de Paris](/source/Conservatoire_de_Paris) to study [counterpoint](/source/counterpoint) with [François-Joseph Fétis](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph_F%C3%A9tis) and [musical composition](/source/musical_composition) with [Henri Montan Berton](/source/Henri_Montan_Berton). At the same time he was double bassist at the [Opéra-Comique](/source/Op%C3%A9ra-Comique).

In 1824, he won the [first Second Grand Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome) with the [cantata](/source/cantata) ''Agnès Sorel''. After his stay in the [Villa Medici](/source/Villa_Medici) in Rome, 1826–27, he settled in Venice. There he composed the opera ''Maria di Brabante'', which was performed in 1830 at the [Teatro La Fenice](/source/Teatro_La_Fenice) with great success.

Later he gave up his musical career and turned to agriculture and silkworm breeding. At Treviso he built a factory for processing caterpillar cocoons. His innovations found the attention of Italian agricultural societies and the ''Société impériale et centrale d'agriculture''.

He died in [Venice](/source/Venice).

==External links==
* [http://www.musimem.com/Guillion_Albert.htm Albert Guillion; life and catalogue]
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Category:1801 births
Category:1854 deaths
Category:19th-century French composers
Category:19th-century French male composers
Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Category:French opera composers
Category:French Romantic composers
Category:People from Meaux
Category:Prix de Rome for composition

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