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Updated: May 17, 2025
GAVEAUX. He has been a good singer in his youth, and is a very agreeable composer. He always acquits himself of any part he undertakes, if not in a brilliant manner, at least with credit. Two of his musical productions are stock-pieces, and well worth seeing. L'Amour Filial is a happy imitation of the Italian school, and Sophie et Moncars is always heard with pleasure.
This opera was the immediate predecessor of Beethoven's, but it also had a predecessor in a French opera, "Leonore, ou l'Amour conjugal," of which the music was composed by Pierre Gaveaux, a musician of small but graceful gifts, who had been a tenor singer before he became a composer.
The composer was never contented with the change to "Fidelio" which was made, because of the identity of the story with the "Leonore" operas, of Gaveaux and Paer. The early biographers were mistaken on that point, and the blunder was perpetuated by the numbering when the scores were published.
This is rather the fault of the actors than that of the public. There are many old productions which would attract a crowd, were the best performers to play them; but who likes to pay for seeing a master-piece murdered? We now come to speak of the qualifications of these performers. Principal Characters and parts of Lovers. Counter-Tenors. ELLEVIOU, GAVAUDAN, PHILIPPE, and GAVEAUX.
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