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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] in New York. Jenny Lind, who occasioned the earliest general furore in regard to music, did not arrive until nearly three years later. There was not even a decent opera-house in America. Dingy theaters and barren public halls were the sole provision made for accommodating public gatherings. The condition of orchestral music was even still lower than vocal. Twenty-three years earlier, when that greatest of all music teachers, Manual Garcia, with his young daughter, afterward Malibran, the greatest of all dramatic singers, essayed the first Italian opera ever given in America, it is related that he was so maddened by the shocking style in which the second finale to “Don Giovanni” was rendered by the orchestra, that he rushed to the foot-lights, sword in hand, and indignantly compelled them to play it over. In the long interval there had been little or no opportunity for orchestral music to improve. The […]
2022-07-18 14:02:07
Fleisher, Pires, 2022
[…] Louis Persinger, who was Ricchi’s teacher when he was eight and then much later, when Ricci was already an acknowledged virtuoso, is on the piano. We’ll have to come back to the singers another time, but will name them in this post:Pauline Viardot, the famous French mezzo born in Paris to Spanish parents, a lover of many celebrated French writers (and of a Russian, Ivan Turgenev) and also the sister of the diva soprano Maria Malibran, was born on July 18th of 1821. Susan Graham, the wonderful America mezzo, born on July 23rd of 1960. And of course, the great Giuseppe Di Stefano, born on July 24th 101 years ago.
2021-07-14 09:22:00
Review of Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon at Buxton International Festival
Nikki Martin as Cendrillon at Buxton International Festival. Credit Genevieve Girling Pauline Viardot’s reputation in her day was as a performer: one of the great mezzos of the 19th century, she was the sister of Maria Malibran, whose untimely death after a Manchester Musical Festival vocal sing-off in 1836 is sometimes, rather ill-adroitly, clung to as a distinction in the city’s cultural history. She also lived in a cheerful ménage-à-trois with her husband and the novelist Turgenev. Atta-girl! She spent much of her time in the company of the aristocratic and cultured elite, as did most serious artists, and of course she taught private pupils (ditto, ditto). Her compositional gifts, though considerable as befitted someone good enough to take lessons from Liszt, seem to have been practised mainly in creating entertainment for her own salon and giving her pupils performance opportunities along the way. Hence her piano-accompanied comic opera (a piece […]
2020-12-28 09:36:32
Berlioz and the creation of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice as a 19th century masterpiece
[…] the queen's page.Pauline Viardot came from a distinguished operatic dynasty. Her father, the tenor Manuel Garcia, had taken the principal tenor roles in the premieres of Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and The Barber of Seville, and he would be very much associated with the title role in Rossini's Otello. Manuel's son (also Manuel) would be an indifferent singer but became a distinguished pedagogue and invented the laryngoscope. Pauline's elder sister was the star mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran, whose death in 1836 propelled Pauline to the stage. It might also be added, in a story full of links and coincidences, that Pauline's father Manuel Garcia had been the teacher of Adolphe Nourrit.From the 1840s, Pauline Viardot developed a significant career as a singing actress in Paris. She would create the role of Fides in Meyerbeer's opera Le Prophete in 1849, and Gounod wrote the title role in Sapho for her in 1851. […]
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