Garcia

(gar-si'-a or gar-the'-a), Manuel del Popolo Vicente, siriaer [real name Rodriguez], b. Seville, Jan. 21, 1775; d. Pans, June 9, 1832 Cathedral chorister, pupil of Ripa and Almarcha; known as singer, condr. and compr. at 17; great succe in Paris 1808-1811; 1811- 1816 in Naples, singer in Murat’s chapel, profiting by advice from Anzam, composing, singing in Ro mi’s operas (part of Mmaviva was written for him); 1816 in Paris, until Catalani’s mismanagement drove him in 1817 to London; 1819- 24 again in Paris, then again in London until 1825 when he brought family and troupe to N. Y., where they gave Italian operas with great succe ; after short season in Mexico, of the profits of which they were robbed, returned to Paris, where G. continued to compose and teach: his own children Mane [see Malibran] GASPARO DA SAL6 and Pauline [see Viardot-Garcia], Nournt, Rimbault among pupils; of his 43 operas none is remembered. His son, Manuel Garcia [Patricio Rodriguez], teacher, b. Madrid, Mar. 17, 1805, d. London, July 1, 1906. After le ons from his father and Fdtis, went to N. Y. as ba in father’s troupe; 1829 taught m Paris, among his pupils were Jenny Lind, Hennette Ni en, Catherine Hayes, Mine. Marches!, Santley, Sontag; invented laryngoscope; wrote M sur la voix humaine; taught at Paris Cons. 1842; leave of absence 1849, resigned 1850; 1848 teacher at Royal Acad. London, where he remained until 1895; hundredth birthday celebrated with international compliment.