The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464562903321
• Autore: Kendall-Davies Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (629 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.1092
• Soggetti: Mezzo-sopranos -- France -- Biography; Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910; Women composers -- France -- Biography; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD; PROLOGUE; 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; CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN; CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT; CHAPTER TWENTY NINE; CHAPTER THIRTY CHAPTER THIRTY ONE; CHAPTER THIRTY TWO; APPENDIX; LIST OF PAULINE VIARDOT'S ROLES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• 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...