 Garat devoted himself from an early age to the cultivation of his musical talents.Because he professed a distaste for the legal profession, which his father wished him to pursue, he was deprived of his allowance, but through the patronage of a friend he obtained the office of secretary to Comte d'Artois, and was afterwards engaged to give musical lessons to the queen of France.At the beginning of the Revolution he accompanied Rode to England, where the two musicians appeared together in concerts.