Biography
Pierre Gaveaux was born in 1760 in Béziers, sang as a child in the local cathedral choir, and later became principal tenor at the Basilica of Saint-Seurin in Bordeaux before moving to Paris in 1789. There he made his name as a leading operatic tenor, created the role of Jason in Cherubini's "Médée," and himself composed more than thirty stage works, chiefly opéras comiques. With "Léonore, ou l'amour conjugal" (1798) he wrote the first musical setting of the story that would later provide the basis for Beethoven's only opera, "Fidelio." From 1812 Gaveaux suffered from mental illness and died in an asylum near Paris in 1825.
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