Cecile Paul Simon

{{Short description|French composer}}

Cecile Paul Simon (April 12, 1881 – January 3, 1970){{Cite web |title=Cécile Simon |url=https://musee.sacem.fr/index.php/Detail/entities/15771 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=musee.sacem.fr |language=fr}} was a French composer who published under male pseudonyms and was the mother of composer Claude Arrieu.{{Cite web |title=Cécile P. Simon (1881–1970) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/14829631/cecile_p__simon/ |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=fr}}

Simon was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a daughter of the philanthropist Clarisse Simon.url=https://www.youtube.com/c/LaBoite%C3%A0P%C3%A9pites She studied music with Théodore Dubois, Paul Vidal, and Charles Tournemire. She married Paul Simon and their daughter Louise Marie (composer Claude Arrieu) was born in 1903. Simon wrote songs, chamber music, orchestral works, film music, and several operas. Simon published as early as at seventeen, under the names C.P., C. Navil, and other male pseudonyms, such as Guy Portal or Jean Rovens.url=https://www.youtube.com/c/LaBoite%C3%A0P%C3%A9pites{{Cite book |last=Haine |first=Malou |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BF-Oq8iKZ_kC&dq=guy+portal+cecile+simon&pg=PA208 |title=Jean Cocteau, textes et musique |date=2005 |publisher=Editions Mardaga |isbn=978-2-87009-901-8 |language=fr}}

Some of Simon's compositions were published by Durdilly and Rouart.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4 |edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |oclc=16714846}}