Category: Biographies
Garcia, a member of that family of Spanish musicians whose combined brilliancy has probably never been equalled in the annals of the musical world. The father and founder of the family, renowned as one of the finest tenors of his day; as a prolific composer, and as a singing t...
On the Sunday evening after the Centenary Banquet, Señor Garcia was present at a more private dinner, attended by the laryngologists, who had come together to do homage to the f...
19. CHAPTER XIX.In commencing this chapter I must apologise for the personal tone, which is almost unavoidable, since I am giving purely personal reminiscences of the years of study that I spen...
8. CHAPTER VIII.And now let us take up the career of Maria Malibran, since the next six years of Manuel Garcia's life are chiefly concerned with the triumphs of this his first pupil. We have al...
20. CHAPTER XX.That 17th of March has become red-lettered in the annals of music by reason of its international character, and the fact that the two professions of music and medicine joined ha...
17. CHAPTER XVII."Every year a man lives, he is worth less." This is what Manuel Garcia used to assert when he was drawing near to the completion of those three-score years and ten which have be...
10. CHAPTER X.The year 1841 may be looked on as the most important in Manuel Garcia's career as a teacher of singing, for it saw the arrival of the soprano who was to become the greatest of a...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.The five years preceding the celebration of Manuel Garcia's ninetieth birthday are principally noteworthy for two episodes, which I will leave Mr Hermann Klein to relate, since...
7. CHAPTER VII.Manuel Garcia, in the January of 1828, was present at the operatic _début_ of his sister, Maria Malibran, in Paris, the details of which he once gave to me. On another occasion...
13. CHAPTER XIII.At the close of June 1848 Manuel Garcia, at the age of forty-three, arrived in London, where he was to make a new home and spend the rest of his days.
3. CHAPTER III.When Manuel Garcia joined his parents in Italy in the summer of 1814, being at the time in his tenth year, he found Naples under the rule of King Murat.
4. CHAPTER IV.When he had last been in that city, upwards of four years previously, Napoleon had still been all-powerful; when he returned Louis XVIII. was on the throne and Bonaparte in hope...
5. CHAPTER V.The earliest operatic performances in America were derived not from Italian but from English sources. Elson tells us in his book on American music that "The Beggar's Opera," whi...
9. CHAPTER IX.After the death of Malibran in 1836, the ensuing years of Manuel Garcia's life were spent in steady progress of fame as a teacher. The next event of importance in his career too...
11. CHAPTER XI.We have seen how at this point in his career he was able to claim as pupils a trio of world-renowned singers--Maria Malibran, Pauline Viardot, and Jenny Lind. During the period...
6. CHAPTER VI.Picture to yourself Señor Garcia sallying forth into the streets of New York on February 4, 1826, and purchasing a paper, to be confronted with this piece of up-to-date intellig...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It was in 1854 (the year which saw the ultimatum of England and France presented to St Petersburg, the prelude to the Crimean War) that the important invention was made--or, as...
2. CHAPTER II.MANUEL PATRICIO RODRIGUEZ GARCIA--to give his full name--was born on March 17, 1805, four days before the death of Greuze. The place of his birth was not Madrid, as has been so...
12. CHAPTER XII.The first revolution of 1848 broke out in February. The grand Reform banquet which had been announced was suddenly prohibited on the 21st of the month, the immediate consequence...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The year of the invention of the laryngoscope is principally of interest to musicians from the fact that Gye was able to secure for his opera company a valuable aid in that grea...
15. CHAPTER XV.1841 became a memorable date in the earlier period of Manuel Garcia's career as a teacher, as bringing Jenny Lind to his studio in Paris. In the same way, 1857 stood out in the...
1. CHAPTER I.Garcia, a member of that family of Spanish musicians whose combined brilliancy has probably never been equalled in the annals of the musical world. The father and founder of the...