Garcia the Centenarian And His Times
Reading edition
Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science
BY M. STERLING MACKINLAY M. A. Oxon. AUTHOR OF 'ANTOINETTE STERLING AND OTHER CELEBRITIES'
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MCMVIII
Franzen, Madrid. THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN. (From a Photograph specially forwarded to the Author by His Majesty.)
Dedicated TO H. M. THE KING OF SPAIN BY GRACIOUS PERMISSION
PREFACE.
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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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INDEX325
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA Painted by John S. Sargent.Frontispiece
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THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAINDedication
MANUEL GARCIA'S MOTHER12
MANUEL GARCIA'S FATHER24
MARIA MALIBRAN106
PAULINE VIARDOT124
JENNY LIND138
MANUEL GARCIA From a Drawing by Mme. Viardot.200
CHARLES SANTLEY216
ANTOINETTE STERLING220
CHARLES HALLÉ AND MANUEL GARCIA From a Drawing by Richard Doyle.222
HERMANN KLEIN238
MADAME MELBA268
FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN BY MANUEL GARCIA AT 91278
FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 99294
FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 94296
FACSIMILE PAGE OF MUSIC WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDREDTH YEAR312
FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDRED-AND-SECOND YEAR322
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.'