Gaveaux, Pierre

Gaveaux, Pierre (August 1761, Béziers; 5 February 1825, Paris), singer and composer, entered the boys’ choir of the cathedral in his native city at age seven, where the quality of his voice singled him out for the execution of solos in motets until 1778. Although he wished to journey to Naples to study music, circumstances dictated his accepting another church post in Bordeaux. He studied composition here under François Beck , however, and he decided that he was ready to tempt fate by quitting…