Manuel del Popolo Vicente GarcIa, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies

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Manuel del Popolo Vicente GarcIa[mAnwel´ del pOpO´lO vEthAn´tA gArthE´A] Pronunciation Key, 1775–1832, Spanish tenor, teacher, impresario, and composer. His daughter was Maria Malibran. He was the first to produce opera in Italian in New York (1825–26) and in Mexico (1827–28). Pauline Viardot-GarcIa was also his daughter. His son, Manuel Patricio RodrIguez GarcIa[pAtrE´thyO rOdrE´gAth] Pronunciation Key, 1805–1906, left (1829) the operatic stage to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy, London (1848–95). Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi were among his pupils. He invented (1854) the laryngoscope.

See biography by M. S. MacKinlay (1908).