composer music educator musicologist physician teacher theorist
In 1835, he returned to Paris and studied medicine and mathematics.
He entered the Marines at age 16 and qualified there to become a doctor and surgeon. He also visited a course taught by Aimé Paris, who propagated a music notation system inherited from Pierre Galin. He was very attracted to the method, and when he ended up marrying Paris"s sister Nanine, he promoted and developed it together with Paris.
From 1844, he gave in Paris more than 150 courses in the method, which became known as the Galin-Paris-Chevé method.
Under John Curwen it came into the English-speaking world, and was carried by Lowell Mason into the United States. A hundred years later, the Hungarian music educator Zoltán Kodály adapted the system in his Kodály Method.
He is also the father of Émile-Frédéric-Maurice Chevé (1829-1897), a poet.