Jean-Blaise Martin

Jean-Blaise Martin began singing publicly as a child, before his voice broke.

He made his professional operatic debut in 1789, at the Théâtre Feydeau, in Paris, in a parody called Le Marquis de Tulipano.

He composed one opéra comique, Les oiseaux de mer, produced at the Théâtre Feydeau in 1796.

Martin's voice was described as a "ténor grave et sombre", meaning a deep-voiced dark tenor, or as a "baryton aigu et clair", meaning a clear-voiced high baritone; the compass was E flat to a, with a falsetto extension to a'.

Camille Maurane and Jacques Jansen are widely recognized as having been the best exponents of the role.