Alexis de Garaudé (composer, 1779)

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Alexis de Garaudé (born March 21, 1779 in Nancy , † March 23, 1852 in Paris ) was a French composer and music teacher .

Life

Alexis de Garaudé belonged to the nobility through his father, a councilor in Nancy. At first he only studied music to expand his education, but after the family was ruined by the revolution , he went to Paris to earn a living with music. He studied singing at the newly opened Paris Conservatory with Girolamo Crescentini and Pierre-Jean Garat and harmony with Giuseppe Cambini and Antonín Reicha .

From 1808 until its dissolution in 1830, de Garaudé was the singer of the Imperial and Royal Chapel. From 1816 he taught voice training and solfège at the conservatory, and from 1835 until his retirement in 1841 he was professor of singing.

Among his students was Clotilde Colombelle (born March 26, 1804 in Paris , † February 5, 1826 in Milan ), who after successfully studying at the Conservatory (first prize in music theory in 1818, second prize in singing 1819) under the name Mademoiselle Coreldi a promising career began as a singer at the Teatro San Carlo and as Prima Donna at the Teatro alla Scala , which was ended by her untimely death. She was the mother of his son Alexis Albert Gauthier Colombelle (1821-1854), who also became known as a composer under the name Alexis de Garaudé (son). A second son, Charles Gabriel Sylvestre Colombelle (born January 6, 1823 in Paris) received a first prize for Solfège at the age of thirteen at the Conservatory in 1836, nothing is known about his subsequent life.

De Garaudé became known primarily as the author of some textbooks for singing and solfège, some of which are reissued and used up to the present day. He is considered an important representative of French romance, and he also composed piano works, religious works, including a mass solennelle and the opera La lyre enchantée . After a trip to Spain in 1852 he published the report L'Espagne en 1851, ou impression de voyage d'un touriste dans les diverses provinces de ce royaume .

Works

  • Méthode de chant , Paris, 1809, 1825
  • Petite Méthode de chant dédiée aux Dames. A l'usage de la Maison royale établie à St Denis pour l'éducation des filles des membres de la Légion d'honneur , Paris, around 1820
  • Soixante solfèges progressifs à deux voix égales, avec accompagnement de piano ou harpe, ou nouveau cours de lecture musicale précédé de principes de musique par demandes et réponses , Paris 1831
  • L'Harmonie rendue facile ou théorie pratique de cette science , Paris 1835
  • Méthode complète de piano , Paris 1840
  • Solfèges des enfants et des écoles primaires, à l'usage des colléges, pensionnats, séminaires , Paris p. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Alexis de Garaudé in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Garaudé, Alexis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1852
Place of death Paris