Sophie Gail

Sophie Gail after Eugène Isabey

Edmee Sophie Gail née Garre (28 August 1775 – 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). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Gail (Edmee) Sophie". Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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