The life and work of Pauline Viardot Garcia / by Barbara Kendall-Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall-Davies, Barbara.

Contributor:

Kendall-Davies, Barbara., Performer.

Skerry, Jillian., Performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mezzo-sopranos--France--Biography.

Mezzo-sopranos.

Women composers--France--Biography.

Women composers.

Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910.

Viardot-García, Pauline.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Contains:

Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910. Songs. Selections

ISBN:

1-4438-6494-3

1-4438-4693-7

OCLC:

830167635