Pierre-Jean Garat

Because he professed a distaste for the legal profession, which his father wished him to pursue, he was deprived of his allowance, but through the patronage of a friend he obtained the office of secretary to Comte d'Artois, and was afterwards engaged to give musical lessons to the queen of France.

At the beginning of the Revolution he accompanied Rode to England, where the two musicians appeared together in concerts.

After the Revolution he became a professional singer and was thrown into prison for a song he composed about the misfortunes of the royal family.

By his subsequent appearances in Paris, and his visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Russia, he made for himself a reputation as a singer unequalled by any other of his own time.

In addition, he became a professor of singing for the Conservatoire de Musique, and composed several songs.