It is therefore "indispensable" that his son Alexis "accompany the air and the duo". - Alexis de Garaudé is best known as an author of educational books on singing and solfège, some of which are still in print. His son Alexis, who died young, started a promising career as a pianist and composer, winning the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1841 and publishing a successful piano transcription of Meyerbeer's "La Marche du sacre du Prophète". - Several tears, traces of former mounting, and minor browning to the upper border..