Pierre Gaveaux

Pierre Gaveaux
Portrait by Edmé Quenedey after a physionotrace (1821).

Pierre Gaveaux (6 October 1760 – 5 February 1825) was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal, the first operatic version of the story that later found fame as Fidelio.