Although Garaudé’s life spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras, his music suggests that he favored the galant style of the Classical Era. The height of his career aligned with Romantic composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, but his music is more similar to that of Joseph Haydn and even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, likely due to his composition teachers’ connection with Haydn. Garaudé is most known for his songs, for he was a vocal teacher, though he also produced a few chamber works, one of which can be found in the Freedman Collection, Air Varié, a set of variations for string quartet. He also wrote an opera, La lyre enchantée, though it was never performed. He spent a majority of his time, however, contributing to the world of vocal pedagogy, as a teacher at the Paris Conservatory and author of numerous pedagogy books, including one of his most well known books, Solfeges des Enfants, a solfege book for children in primary school.
Pedagogical text by Garaudé. Public Domain.