Manuel Garcia ( Spanish: Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García ; full name Manuel del Populo Vicente Garcia [1] , often referred to as Manuel Garcia the father , Manuel Garcia I or Manuel Garcia Sr .; January 21, 1775 , Seville , Spain - June 10, 1832 years , Paris , France ) - Spanish opera singer ( tenor ), vocal teacher, composer and musician ( guitarist ).
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 In the title role in Rossini 's opera Othello , Paris, approx. 1821 | |
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| Birth name | Manuel Garcia del Popolo Vicente |
| Date of Birth | January 21, 1775 |
| Place of Birth | Seville |
| Date of death | June 10, 1832 (57 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| Buried | |
| A country |  Spain |
| Professions | Opera singer |
| Singing voice | tenor |
| Genres | |
| Collectives | La scala |
Biography
Manuel Garcia was born on January 21, 1775 in Seville . His family, according to various sources, was of Moorish, Jewish or Gypsy origin [2] .
The husband of the Spanish actress and opera soprano Maria Joaquina Sitches Briones (February 28, 1780 - May 10, 1864), father and vocal mentor of singers Maria Malibran , Polina Viardo and bass Manuel Garcia Jr.
In 1808-1825 he performed at the opera houses of Paris and London . In the years 1825-1827 he toured in the United States of America (with his children).
In 1829 he organized a singing school in the French capital, where he taught.
Despite his Spanish origin, Manuel Garcia presents, in the history of singing, a typical example of Italian style at the beginning of the 19th century. According to John Potter, when he arrived in Italy in 1812 there was a meeting with "a very respected tenor and singing master John Ansani, from whom he acquired skills that would make him able to cope with Rossini.
Garcia made a major contribution to the development of singing, was a decisive opponent of the dominant in the late 18th century. - early 19th century sopranist singers [3] .
Creativity
The first performer of the role of Count Almaviva in the " Barber of Seville " and Norfolk in the " Elizabeth, Queen of England " Rossini .
The author of a number of comic operas and tonadils . One of Garcia’s songs from the tonadilla “Imaginary Servant” was used by Bizet in the opera Carmen .
Notes
- ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ Tchaikovsky I. Polina Viardo: the possibility of discussion . Neva. Date of treatment July 23, 2015. Archived on September 3, 2014.
- ↑ Manuel Garcia .
Literature
- Garcia, Manuel (composer and singer) // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Levien J. M., The Garcia family, L., 1932
- James Radomski: Manuel García (1775-1832); chronicle of the life of a bel canto tenor at the dawn of romanticism. Oxford; New York: Oxford Univ. Press 2000. ISBN 0-19-816373-8
- Teresa Radomski (Ed.): L'isola disabitata . Partitur. Middleton, Wisc .: AR Ed., 2006. Serie: Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 42. ISBN 0-89579-594-9 ; ISBN 978-0-89579-594-6 .
- Rodolfo Celletti , Storia del belcanto , Discanto Edizioni, Fiesole, 1983
- Salvatore Caruselli (ed), Grande enciclopedia della musica lirica , Longanesi & C. Periodici SpA, Rome