François Sudre
Jean François Sudre (born August 15, 1787 in Albi , † October 20, 1862 in Paris ) was a French music teacher and inventor of the musical a priori language Solresol .
biography
Sudre was a music teacher in Soreze after studying at the Paris Conservatory. But as early as 1805 he made his first experiments with a world musical language, which he presented to the public in 1823, a year after moving to Paris, under the name of musical language (langue musicale). In 1824 he practiced the function of this musical language with his students Edouard Deldevez and Charles Lasonneur and made a tour of France with the two of them in 1825 in order to make the musical language known to a broad public. In his memoirs, Ernest Deldevez also wrote about the benefits of using this language in music education. (Edouard Deldevez: Mes mémoires, 1890)
In 1829 Sudre renamed his musical language to telephony and introduced it to the military as a means of transmitting messages. Here, too, Sudre used his alphabet from the seven solmization syllables as the basis of the universal musical language ( La Langue Musicale Universelle ). In 1833, Sudre presented his "musical language" to the press at an event at the Royal Academy of Art and received appreciative comments.
In 1866, four years after his death, Sudre's widow posthumously published the Solresol grammar and the dictionary of Langue Universelle Musicale .
Create
In contrast to planned languages or world auxiliary languages such as Esperanto or Volapük, Solresol does not use an existing vocabulary, but uses a semantic, logically comprehensible, easy-to-learn arrangement of all words. The main advantage of Solresol is the idea of multi-sensuality and universal applicability. In this way, the only seven basic characters or tones can be easily memorized in a wide variety of ciphers that are spontaneously agreed upon in a situation-relevant manner. In this way, Solresol is superior to all languages in terms of its universal applicability, because deaf-mute gestures, Morse code, shorthand, Braille and all conventional language ciphers can be used immediately.
During the Napoleonic wars, Sudre began to think about conveying information over great distances by means of different sounding cannons and called his first languages "telephony". As a musician, he must have noticed the similarity of the Italian tone syllables or tone names with words. The tonal syllable “Si” can of course be used as “Yes”, the tonal syllable “Do” is reminiscent of “No”, ie “No”. Following up on these ideas, Sudre developed the “music” language, which was consciously reduced to the seven tone syllables, Solresol, “la langue musicale universelle”. The tones or seven character sequences that can be freely agreed within a speaker group (for example as gestures) can now also be described as the first and, above all, still the only international deaf-mute gesture language.
The appreciation of these ideas Sudre is still pending. Only the French military partially recognized the potential of this a priori language, but also contributed to the secrecy (strategically necessary during the wars).
Since Leibniz first formulated in 1705 that the greatest potential for world improvement lies in an easily learnable world language, Sudre's idea for people who strive for the common good in a sustainable and efficient manner has been the most ingenious and useful idea in human history and at best in its usefulness with the invention of writing without which we would be subject to the transience of memories and experiences bound to the human brain and thus its mortality. However, the writing needs many improvements in terms of the still possible easier access to education and knowledge. Francois Sudre had built such access facilities in his Solresol language.
Others
From July 2009 to December 30, 2012, the “François Sudre-Paul von Jankó Institute for Common Use ” existed in Aldingen- Aixheim . Its founder, the Jankopianist Detlef Graul, developed Sudre's ideas further and redesigned them for the English language with the The aim of universal applicability and the easiest possible learnability.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sudre, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sudre, Jean François (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French music teacher and inventor of the musical planned language Solresol |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Albi |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1862 |
| Place of death | Paris |