Sophie Gail

Edmee Sophie Gail née Garre (b. 28 August 1775, d. 24 July 1819) was a French singer and composer.

Life

Sophie Garre was born in Paris in the parish of Saint Sulpice, the daughter of Marie-Louise Adelaide Colloz and surgeon Claude-Francois Garre (1730–1799). She studied piano as a child and published her first composition, a romance, at the age of 14. At the age of 19, she married editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) and had one son, Jean-François Gail.

She and her husband divorced in 1801, and Sophie Garre toured as a singer in Europe. She studied with Fétis, Perne and Sigismund Neukomm and wrote an opera comique as her first work for theater. She died in Paris.[1][2]

Works

Selected works include:

References

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA180&dq=Sophie+Gail+(1775%E2%80%931819)&hl=en&ei=vboETcDjDYT78Aaytu36Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Sophie%20Gail%20(1775%E2%80%931819)&f=false. Retrieved 12 December 2010. 
  2. ^ "Gail (Edmee) Sophie". http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/g/gail_sophie.html. Retrieved 12 December 2010.