Chapter I: 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.

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

INDEX 325

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA _Frontispiece_ Painted by John S. Sargent.

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 200 From a Drawing by Mme. Viardot.

CHARLES SANTLEY 216

ANTOINETTE STERLING 220

CHARLES HALLÉ AND MANUEL GARCIA 222 From a Drawing by Richard Doyle.

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.

'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.'

FIRST PERIOD

PREPARATION

(1805-1830)