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

Life

Sophie Garre was born in

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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

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(1755–1829) and had one son,

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. She and her husband divorced in 1801, and Sophie Garre toured as a singer in Europe. She studied with Fétis, Perne and

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and wrote an opera comique as her first work for theater. She died in Paris.

Works

Selected works include: *1797, ''Deus airs'' for the drama ''Montoni'' *1813, ''Les deux jaloux'', opéra comique in one act *1814, ''Il est vrai que Thibaut mérite'', romance *1853, ''Ma Fanchette est charmante'', trio *1813, ''Mademoiselle de Launay à la Bastille'', opéra-comique in one act *1813 ''Ma liberté, ma liberté'', romance *1814, ''Angela ou L'atelier de Jean Cousin'', opéra comique in 1 act *1814, ''La Méprise'', opéra comique in 1 act *1818, ''La Sérénade'', opéra *1807, ''N'est-ce pas elle'', romance with piano accompaniment *1807, ''La jeune et charmante Isabelle'', romance *1808, ''Heure de soir'', romance with piano and harp accompaniment *1814, ''Les devoirs du chevalier'', romance on a poème de Creuzé de Lesser *1814, ''Variations concertantes'' for flute and piano *1861, ''Transcription variée de Moeris'' for piano *1815, ''Prière aux songes'', nocturne à deux voix sur un poème de M. Cheurlin, with piano and harp accompaniment *1815, ''Le souvenir du diable'' *1838, ''Le Diable'', chansonnette sur un poème d'Arnault with piano *1838, ''A mes fleurs'', with piano *1820, ''Les langueurs et le Le Serment'', nocturnes with piano

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