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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The Years of Grace: 1863-1910 Volume 2: The Years of Grace, Volume 2, 1863-1910

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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 Sitches, was also a singer and taught Pauline; her brother Manuel was an eminent singing teacher and inventor of the laryngoscope and her sister was the legendary singer, Maria Malibran. Her friends and colleagues are household names, including the writer George Sand and her lover Frederick Chopin, Clara and Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Gabriel Faure, Jules Massent and Franz Liszt who taught Pauline piano and on whom she had a girlish crush. Though considered ugly, she had a unique fascination and many men fell in love with her, including her husband, Louis Viardot, historian and man of letters; the Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev; Maurice Sand, artist son of George Sand; the composers Charles Gounod and Hector Berlioz, as well as her mentor, the painter Ary Scheffer. Although famous in her day, after her death in 1910 she fell into obscurity but her songs are appearing again and her influence as a teacher has spread world wide. The first volume largely covers Viardot's international singing career from 1836 to 1863 and the second volume, although also featuring her performances, concentrates more fully on her work as a composer and teacher as well as a famous musical hostess. Although ostensibly the life, professional and personal, of an amazing individual, the book is also a portrait of an age, culturally, socially and politically. As her first Viardot volume The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, The Years of Fame, 1836-1863, was only the second biography in English of the singer, her work has been seminal and has attracted interest worldwide. The second volume The Years of Grace to be published by Cambridge Scholars' Publishers, is enthusiastically anticipated and will include a CD of three Viardot songs, performed by Giles Davies.

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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1443840130
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Opera
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 August 2012
Listed Since: 04 July 2012

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