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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463453703321

Autore

Kendall-Davies Barbara

Titolo

The life and work of Pauline Viardot Garcia [[electronic resource] /] / by Barbara Kendall-Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4438-6494-3

1-4438-4693-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Viardot-GarciaPauline <1821-1910.>

Disciplina

782.1092

Soggetti

Mezzo-sopranos - France

Women composers - France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF PAULINE VIARDOT'S ROLES; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY TWO; CHAPTER TWENTY THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY SIX; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THREE SONGS BY PAULINE VIARDOT GARCIA ON CD

Sommario/riassunto

This is the second volume of the Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The Years of Grace, 1863-1910. Viardot was an international opera singer, composer and teacher who was seminal in the world of music in the 19th century. She came from a famous family of musicians, her father being the Spanish tenor, composer and teacher, Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia. Her mother, Joaquina Sitchès, was also a singer and taught Pauline; her brother Manuel was an eminent singing teacher and i...