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  Pauline Garcia-Viardot
Pauline Garcia was born in Paris to a Spanish family of singers.
In 1837 16-year-old Pauline Garcia gave her first concert performance in Brussels and in 1839, made her opera debut as Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello in London.
Pauline Viardot-Garcia's body is interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France.
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 Furore Verlag Komponistinnen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pauline Viardot did not consider herself to be a composer by profession, yet she was a composer of professional ability.
Viardot, who was 21 years her senior, gave up his job and accompanied her on the concert tours which she made throughout Europe in the years that followed.
Pauline Viardot’s singing and pianistic ability, her intelligence, and her extraordinary musical versatility, even by the standards of those days, were undisputed.
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 Pauline Garcia-viardot
In 1837 16-year-old Pauline Garcia gave her first concert performance in Brussels and in 1839, made her opera debut as Desdemona in Rossini’s '' Otello '' in London.
Pauline Garcia-Viardot kept a very close lifetime friendship with russian novelist Ivan Turgenev and adopted his love child Pelgaja (later called Paulinette).
The VILLA VIARDOT in Bougival, near Paris, a gift to the Viardots by Ivan Turgenev in 1874, in where so many musicians, painters and poets came has now, since 2001, been restored thanks to the actions of Georges Bizet Association and Patrimoine et Urbanisme.
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 Pauline Garcia-Viardot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pauline Garcia-Viardot (July 18, 1821 – May 18, 1910) was a nineteenth century French mezzo-soprano and composer.
Pauline Garcia-Viardot kept a very close lifetime friendship with the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev and adopted his love child Pelagja (later called Paulinette).
A notable remark of hers was made to the English soprano Adelaide Kemble when they attended the late concert in London by the gerat Italian soprano Giuditta Pasta, who was clearly past her prime.
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 Pauline Viardot - Biography - AOL Music
Viardot was of Spanish origin and was quite noted for her mezzo-soprano voice.
She continued her studies with her mother and was able to study piano with Meysenberg and Liszt and composition with Reicha.
Viardot sang in operas by Rossini, Glinka, Dargomizhsky, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gluck and songs by other composers including Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.
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 Meningar.com om Viardot. Pauline, Viardot-Garcia, Louis mm.
"...Viardot was Michael's first Arts Council Award and tells the story of the 19th century love affair between the Russian novelist Count Ivan Turgenev and the Spanish/French opera singer Pauline Viardot...
Back to Contents The Price of Genius, A Life of Pauline Viardot by April Fitzlyon Great singer though Pauline Viardot was, she was other things as well - a highly intelligent woman, the centre of a distinguished circle, a disseminator of ideas, and the i..
WBO: Salon Viardot West Bay Opera Sunlight Series, 1997-98 Salon Viardot Sunday, November 23, 1997, 7:00 PM West Bay Opera is pleased to announce the first of the three Sunlight Series concerts of the 1997-98 season: Salon Viardot, a brilliant one-woman..
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 Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, 1821-1910. Papers: Guide.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910) was one of the most celebrated French mezzo sopranos of the 19th century, and a truly cosmopolitan woman artist.
Marcelle was Georges and Claudie (Viardot) Chamerot's child [their other children were Jeanne and Raymond].
Lining uses, as reinforcement, fragment of a printed announcement of a concert with Maria Malibran, Charles de Bériot, and Pauline Garcia, 1836 Aug. 18; announcement in German and French.
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 Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
La Malibran died accidentally at the age of 28 in 1836, and Pauline, then barely 16 with a range of three and a half octaves, was encouraged to fill her shoes.
In 1840, Pauline Garcia married the writer and director of the Th��tre Italien in Paris, Louis Viardot, who was 21 years her elder.
The fall of Napoleon III and the creation of the Third Republic in 1890 allowed the Viardots, confirmed republicans, to return to Paris, where Pauline lived until her death in 1910 at the age of nearly 90.
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 Viardot-Garcia, Pauline - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, 1821-1910, French mezzo-soprano; sister of Maria Malibran; pupil of her father, Manuel García.
She retired from the stage in 1863 and taught (1871-75) at the Paris Conservatory.
ARTS: The diva they loved; Pauline Viardot inspired Brahms, Berlioz and Turgenev, so why is she forgotten?(Features)
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 Pauline Viardot - AOL Music
Pauline Garcia-Viardot kept a very close lifetime friendship with the Russian novelist Ivan...
French singer Pauline Viardot greatly influenced the history of opera.
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 Pauline Viardot-Garcia - Wikipedia
Komposition hatte Pauline Viardot in Paris bei Anton Reicha, der auch der Lehrer von Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz und César Franck war, studiert.
Pauline Viardot und Clara Schumann, mit der sie seit 1838 eng befreundet gewesen ist, sorgten für die Präsentation der musikalischen Kunstwerke von Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms.
Als Pauline Viardots Stimme an Strahlkraft verlor, widmete sie sich verstärkt der Komposition und dem Unterricht und förderte dadurch viele spätere Berühmtheiten.
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 Pauline Garcia-Viardot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Her career took her to the best music halls across Europe, and from 1843 to 1846 she was permanently attached to the Opera in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Such was her popularity that writer George Sand made her into the heroine of her 1843 novel "''Consuelo''." In 1863 Pauline Viardot-Garcia retired from the stage.
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 Pauline Garcia-Viardot - Biography of Pauline Garcia-Viardot
Pauline Garcia-Viardot (July 18, 1821 – May 18, 1910) was a 19th century French mezzo-soprano and composer.
Paris - Spanish - Manuel Garcia - 1832 - Maria Malibran - 1836
The VILLA VIARDOT in Bougival, near Paris, where so many musicians, painters or poets came is now, since 2001, been recuperated thanks to the action of Georges Bizet Association and Patrimoine et Urbanisme.
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 Pauline García-Viardot - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Viardot-García, Pauline 18 de julio de 1821 a 18 de mayo de 1910) de origen español, la más importante cantante mezzo-soprano del siglo XIX.
Viardot cantó en óperas de Rossini, Glinka, Dargomizhsky, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gluck y canciones de otros compositores incluyendo Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov y Tchaikovsky.
Como compositor, Viardot escribió numerosas canciones y transcribió trabajos de otros para su voz.
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 VIARDOT, Louis (1800-1833), Libre Examen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Firstedition under this title, inscribed on half-title to George Sand, at p.64 a slip of paper tippedin substituting a new paragraph for a sentence in the text.
This is a good association.Viardot, director of the Théâtre Italien, appears in Sand's Histoire de ma vie as "mon amiLouis Viardot, savant modeste, homme de gout et surtout homme de bien!".
They started aSaint-Simonian journal together, the Revue Indépendante; among the work Sandcontributed was a serialisation of her novel Consuelo, in which the heroine is based onViardot's wife, the opera singer Pauline Garcia-Viardot.
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 Ivan Turgenev - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
In 1843 he fell in love with Pauline Garcia-Viardot, a young Spanish singer, who influenced the rest of his life; he followed her on her singing tours in Europe and spent long periods in the French house of herself and her husband, both of whom accepted him as a family friend.
He sent his daughter by a sempstress to be brought up among the Viardot children.
After 1856 he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe; he was a well-known figure in Parisian literary circles, where his friends included Flaubert and the Goncourt brothers, and an honorary degree was conferred on him at Oxford.
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 AllRefer.com - Pauline Viardot-Garcia (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Pauline Viardot-Garcia[pOlEn´ vyArdO´-gArsEA´] Pronunciation Key, 1821–1910, French mezzo-soprano; sister of Maria Malibran; pupil of her father, Manuel GarcIa.
Following her concert debut in Brussels in 1837 and her opera debut in London in 1839, she became celebrated for her wide range, fine technique, and histrionic ability.
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 Women of Note - Viardot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Berlioz described singer and composer Pauline Viardot as "one of the greatest artists...
The circle round her and her husband Louis Viardot was one of the most distinguished in Paris.
Great singer though Pauline Viardot was, she was other things as well - a highly intelligent woman, the centre of a distinguished circle, a disseminator of ideas, and the inspiration and friend of many great men and women, including George Sand, Chopin, Liszt, Gounod, Berlioz, and above all Turgenev.
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 Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
En 1840, elle épouse Louis Viardot, directeur du Théâtre Italien à Paris.
Bodenstedt für eine singstiems mit begleitung des pianoforte componirt von Pauline Viardot Garcia.
Lettres de Pauline Viardot au violoniste Martin Pierre Marsick (archives Jacques Marsick, avec nos remerciements) : 1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7 — 8 — 9 — 10 — 11 — 12— 13 — 14 (droits de reproduction réservés)
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Since there are no existing audio recordings of the singer, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, it was a challenge to create an 'image' of her life without the help of her voice.
Planning and programming of the website was developed in conjunction with the research project "Music and Gender on the Web", which was financed by the Innovation Initiative at the University of Paderborn.
Julia Lindig was given special permission to digitalize photos, images, autographs, and collectibles of Pauline Viardot-Garcia in the private collection of Dr. Joachim Draheim.
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 Opera Today : Pauline Viardot: The forgotten diva
Pauline Viardot inspired Brahms, Berlioz and Turgenev, so why is she forgotten?
Pauline Viardot-Garcia was more than just the greatest diva of the 19th century.
The Spanish-born mezzo-soprano transformed 19th-century opera and song, inspiring everyone from Berlioz to Brahms, and Clara Schumann to the young Fauré.
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 Ivan Turgenev - Virtual Gallery
On returning to Russia he served briefly in the Civil Service, but from 1845 he devoted himself to literature.
He also fell in love with the singer Pauline Garcia Viardot, and partly for this reason was to live much of his life abroad, mainly in Baden-Baden and Paris, where he died.
His first important prose work was A Hunter's Notes (1847-51), the limpid prose of which, in such masterpieces as 'Bezhin Meadow' and 'The Living Relic', is one of his greatest achievements.
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 Pauline Garcia-Viardot - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Pauline Garcia-Viardot (July 18, 1821–May 18, 1910) was a 19th century French mezzo-soprano and composer.
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 Amazon.com: Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Songs: Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck,Niccolo Jommelli,Pauline Viardot,Christoph ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Niccolo Jommelli, Pauline Viardot
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910) was a member of the important musical Garcia family, a close friend of George Sand and Frederic Chopin(the four vocal arrangments of his mazurkas on this CD were originally performed by Viardot with Chopin himself accompanying), an intimate of Ivan Turgenev, and a musical influence on such composers as Saint-Saens and Gounod.
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 Amazon.ca: The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: Books: Barbara Kendall-Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amazon.ca: The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: Books: Barbara Kendall-Davies
The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia (Hardcover)
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 Amazon.com: Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Songs: Music: Pauline Viardot,Gyorgyi Dombradi,Lambert Bumiller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pauline Viardot Music — Sheet music for Pauline viardot at Sheet Music Plus.
The performers are fine but I cannot help missing the level of musicianship previously displayed by Cecilia Bartoli in Viardot Songs.Perhaps this CD might inspire future releases by other artists."Cecilia,are you listening?"
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 Books by Pauline Viardot-Garcia, compare prices
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The Story of an Operetta : Le Dernier Sorcier by Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev
The Dodillon Copies of Letters by Turgenev to Pauline & Louis Viardot
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 Michelle Ferdinand Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Actress
Scene from Les Huguenots Act 1 Sc 9 (Michelle Ferdinand Pauline Viardot-Garcia; Marietta Alboni, Countess Pepoli (née Maria Anna Marzia))
The online database contains information on 92,385 works, 51,004 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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 Divas - The Site / The Opera Divas / Pauline Viardot
Divas - The Site / The Opera Divas / Pauline Viardot
, opera singers were considered to be barely above music boxes -- uneducated creatures capable of producing a "pretty sound.” But contralto Viardot was a sage, she was Turgyenyef's lover, she advised composers and writers, and she was the first ever to sing Meyerbeer's Fidès and Gounod's Sapho.
Pauline Viardot and Maria Malibran were sisters, and daughters of Manuel Garcia, a very important tenor (Rossini composed his Otello with Garcia in mind), and to this day the "Garcia method" is used to refer to the correct technique for singing.
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 Price Compare Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Pauline Viardot-Garcia (Lieder, Chancon, Canzoni, Mazurkas) Pauline Viardot ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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