Pierre de La Garde [SEP] voice type
Pierre de La Garde
Pierre de La Garde (10 February 1717, Crécy-la-Chapelle – c.1792) was a French composer and baritone. He was music master to the daughters of Louis XV. His surviving compositions are mainly lightweight, composed for himself to sing and accompany himself on the guitar. His opéra-ballet "Aeglé" (1748), of which a copy survives in the Musée de l'Amérique française, has been revived in Canada, and his comic cantata "La Sonate," commencing "N’admirés
Anna Guédy of École Freudienne de Paris further influenced his academic career (lectures on film and voice in Paris), which led to a collaboration to critical theory journal La Cause Freudienne edited by Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller. Early friendships with French avant-garde actor Serge Merlin and professor of declamation (in the tradition of Sarah Bernhardt) Pierre Spivakoff deepened his understanding of voice. He began contributing extensive articles on voice, opera and psycho-analysis, to leading journal "Avant-Scène Opera" (from 1977