Manuel García
Also recorded as Manuel García the Senior · Manuel Garcia · Manuel Garcia the Senior · Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García
Manuel García
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- Full name
- Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García.
- Born
- 1775. · Seville.
- Died
- 1832. · Paris.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- composer, opera singer, opera vocal coach, businessperson, maestro and voice teacher.
- Fields
- opera.
- Teachers
- Giovanni Ansani.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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His recorded language was Spanish. He married Joaquina Sitchez and Eugenie Garcia. 4 children are recorded: Maria Malibran, Pauline Viardot, Manuel García and Josefa Ruiz-García.
Peinture, portrait de Manuel Vicente del Popolo Rodriguez (Garcia)
Inonnu(e) · Louise Héritte-Viardot (Louis Héritte de La Tour, éd.), Une famille de grands musiciens: notes et souvenirs anecdotiques sur Garcia, Pauline Viardot, la Malibran, Louise Héritte-Viardot et leur entou
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1775
Manuel García born at Seville.
1832
Manuel García died at Paris.
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- García, Manuel (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2001
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2001
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q704645: Manuel García
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- 1.Radomski, James. Manuel García : 1775-1832 : Chronicle of the life of a bel canto tenor at the dawn of romanticism. Oxford. 3, 262. 2000.
- 2.According to Franz Liszt, who also declared that, with her, the world had finally found a woman composer of genius (quotations from back-cover notes of Michael Steen's book Enchantress of Nations: Pauline Viardot, Soprano, Muse and Lover. Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2007, )
- 3.Celletti, p. 172
- 4.Susan T. Sommer, "New York", in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997, vol. III, p. 586.
- 5.To be more precise, there had been previous performances of both Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, "but in much shortened versions and in wretched English translations by Henry Rowley Bishop". Since the García company lacked a suitable Don Ottavio, Da Ponte himself had to look for a local tenor to perform the role (Sheila Hodges, Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart's Librettist, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2002, p. 193, ).
- 6.Radomski, Grove, p. 347
- 7.Potter, p. 45
- 8.Radomski, Grove, p. 347. According to Radomski, "it is possible that [García's voice] was a baritone with a highly developed falsetto"; which seems however rather inconsistent with Caruselli and Celletti stating that Rossini's vocal writing for García is usually higher-pitched than for other baritenors (cf. below)
- 9.Caruselli, p. 506; Celletti, pp. 165–166
- 10.Paolo Scudo was a major critic of the Revue des Deux Mondes – cf. Caruselli, II, p. 398 (article: "Duprez")
- 11.Celletti, p. 166, note 1 (translation by Frederick Fuller)
- 12.Caruselli, II, p. 506
- 13.Source: performance printed libretto, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dramma Giocoso in quattro Atti. Rappresentato in Napoli la Prima Volta Nel Real Teatro del Fondo Nel Mese di Marzo del 1814 /(la Musica è del Celebre Mozart). Napoli: Tipografia Largo del Castello, 1814 (cited by Italianopera – Libretti a stampa)
- 14.Title so reported by Radomski, Grove (p. 346).
- 15.Source: Italianopera.org (accessed 16 October 2010).
- 16.It was, in fact, a rearrangement of the dramma per musica Alonso e Cora, premièred at Milan's La Scala on 26 December 1803.
- 17.Jean Mongrédien, Le Théâtre-Italien de Paris. Chronologie et documents, Lyon, Symétrie, 2008, V: 1801-1831, p. 11,
- 18.The score printed in 1973 (Madrid, ed. José Subirá) and James Radomski's article in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, state the title as El majo y la maja. The present page reports the version later given by the 2008 critical edition by Juan de Udaeta: Manuel García, La maja y el majo; La declaración; Quien porfía mucho alcanza; El poeta calculista, Madrid, Iberautor/ICCMU, 2008, .
- 19.Libretto (1825): The cunning lover. L'amante astuto. Opera comica. In due atti. Poesia del Signor Rosich. Musica del Signor Manuel Garzia. New York: E.M. Murden (for the New-York Theatre) (accessible online in books.google). Paolo Rosich, the librettist of L'amante astuto, also sang the role of Anacleto at the New York premiere.
- 20.Paolo Rosich, the librettist of La figlia del aria, also sang the role of Timoteo at the New York premiere.
- 21.For this work cf. Mengíbar, Andrés Moreno Don Chisciotte de Manuel García, "Melómano La revista de música clásica" (Orfeo Ediciones).
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He trained under Giovanni Ansani. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Manuel García is recorded as composer, opera singer, opera vocal coach, businessperson and maestro. Recorded at birth as Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García.
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