IN presenting this Memoir of Don Manuel Garcia, I wish to thank those friends and pupils of the Maestro who have assisted me with reminiscences, photographs, and other material. But especially I would thank Mrs Alec Tweedie for the kind way in which she read through the MS., when it was still in a rough state, and made many invaluable suggestions with regard to its arrangement and improvement generally.
>M. S. M.
Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club,
Leicester Square,
March 1908.
| CONTENTS. | ||
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| [FIRST PERIOD. PREPARATION.] (1805-1830.) | ||
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| [I.] | INTRODUCTORY | [3] |
| [II.] | GARCIA'S CHILDHOOD IN SPAIN (1805-1814) | [13] |
| [III.] | NAPLES (1814-1816) | [25] |
| [IV.] | PARIS AND LONDON (1816-1825) | [40] |
| [V.] | OPERA IN AMERICA (1825-1826) | [57] |
| [VI.] | NEW YORK AND MEXICO (1826-1827) | [73] |
| [VII.] | OPERATIC CAREER ABANDONED (1828-1830) | [86] |
| [SECOND PERIOD]. PARIS. (1830-1848.) | ||
| [VIII.] | MARIA MALIBRAN'S TRIUMPHS (1830-1836) | [105] |
| [IX.] | PAULINE VIARDOT-GARCIA (1837-1841) | [125] |
| [X.] | JENNY LIND (1841-1842) | [139] |
| [XI.] | SOME FAMOUS PUPILS (1842-1848) | [156] |
| [XII.] | CLOSE OF PARIS CAREER (1848) | [169] |
| [THIRD PERIOD]. LONDON. (1848-1895.) | ||
| [XIII.] | ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND (1848-1854) | [183] |
| [XIV.] | THE LARYNGOSCOPE (1854-1857) | [201] |
| [XV.] | CHARLES SANTLEY AND ANTOINETTE STERLING (1857-1873) | [214] |
| [XVI.] | TWENTY YEARS OF MUSIC (1853-1873) | [225] |
| [XVII.] | THREE-SCORE YEARS AND TEN (1874-1890) | [237] |
| [XVIII.] | AN OCTOGENARIAN AUTHOR (1890-1895) | [256] |
| [FOURTH PERIOD]. RETIREMENT. (1895-1906.) | ||
| [XIX.] | A NONAGENARIAN TEACHER (1895-1905) | [277] |
| [XX.] | THE CENTENARY HONOURS (MARCH 17, 1905) | [298] |
| [XXI.] | LAST DAYS (1905-1906) | [318] |
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| INDEX | [325] | |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | |
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| CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA Painted by John S. Sargent. | [Frontispiece] |
| TO FACE PAGE | |
| THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN | [Dedication] |
| MANUEL GARCIA'S MOTHER | [12] |
| MANUEL GARCIA'S FATHER | [24] |
| MARIA MALIBRAN | [106] |
| PAULINE VIARDOT | [124] |
| JENNY LIND | [138] |
| MANUEL GARCIA From a Drawing by Mme. Viardot. | [200] |
| CHARLES SANTLEY | [216] |
| ANTOINETTE STERLING | [220] |
| CHARLES HALLÉ AND MANUEL GARCIA From a Drawing by Richard Doyle. | [222] |
| HERMANN KLEIN | [238] |
| MADAME MELBA | [268] |
| FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN BY MANUEL GARCIA AT 91 | [278] |
| FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 99 | [294] |
| FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 94 | [296] |
| FACSIMILE PAGE OF MUSIC WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDREDTH YEAR | [312] |
| FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDRED-AND-SECOND YEAR | [322] |
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED.
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- 'Albion.' (An American weekly newspaper published from 1823-1826.)
- Appleton's 'Cyclopedia of American Biography.'
- 'Athenæum' (1848).
- Brewer's 'History of France.'
- Burney's 'History of Music' (1776-1789).
- Colletta's 'History of Naples' (1734-1825). Horner's translation.
- 'Diversions of a Music Lover.' By C. L. Graves.
- Eitner's 'Quellen Lexikon.'
- Elson's 'History of American Music.'
- Fétis' 'Biographie Universelle des Musiciens.'
- 'Fitz-Greene Halleck's Memoirs.' By General James Grant Wilson.
- Fuller-Maitland's revised edition of Grove's 'Dictionary of Music.'
- 'Harmonicon' Musical Magazine (1823-1833).
- Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates.'
- 'Jenny Lind's Memoirs.' By Holland and Rockstro.
- 'Le Guide Musical.'
- 'Londina Illustrata.' By Wilkinson. (1819-1825.)
- 'Madrid.' By a Resident Officer. (1833.)
- Mapleson's 'Memoirs.'
- 'Marchesi and Music.'
- Mendel's 'Musikalisches Conversations Lexikon.'
- 'Mexico.' By Maria Wright.
- Morse-Stephens's 'European Revolution.'
- 'Musical Reminiscences of Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe' (1824).
- 'Paris.' By G. L. Craik. (1834).
- 'Recollections.' By Bessie Palmer.
- Sir Felix Semon's 'Zum hundertsten Geburstage Manuel Garcia's.' (Privately printed.)
- 'Sixty Years of Recollections.' By Ernest Legouvé.
- 'Student and Singer.' By Sir Charles Santley.
- 'Thirty Years of Musical Life.' By Hermann Klein.
- Wyndham's 'History of Covent Garden.'