Dedication
Dedicated
TO
H. M. THE KING OF SPAIN
BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION
Preface
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 | |