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Pauline Viardot
12+ albums
frenchClassicalcomposerfemaleromantic era
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Pauline Viardot [née García] (1821–1910) was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue, and composer of Spanish descent. Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García was born on 18th July 1821 in Paris to a Spanish opera family. Her godparents were Ferdinando Paer and Princess Pauline Galitsin, who provided her with her middle names. She was thirteen years younger than her sister, mezzo Maria Malibran, but her father, Spanish tenor Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García, made Pauline his favourite and trained her on the piano and also gave her singing lessons. As a small girl she travelled with her family to London, New York (where her father, mother, brother and sister gave the first performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte), and Mexico. By the age of six she could speak Spanish, French, English, and Italian; later in her career, she sang Russian arias so well that she was taken for a native speaker. After her father's death in 1832, her mother, soprano Joaquína Sitchez took over her singing lessons, and forced her to focus her attention on her voice and away from the piano. She had wanted to become a professional concert pianist. She had taken piano lessons with the young Franz Liszt and counterpoint and harmony classes with Anton Reicha, the teacher of Liszt and Hector Berlioz. It was with the greatest regret that she abandoned her strong vocation for the piano, which she did only because she did n
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Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet by Jan-Peter Klöpfel)
6342Hai Luli!
4353Violin Sonatina in A minor: I. Adagio
3914Havanaise
3815Hai luli
3556Les Filles de Cadix
27776 Morceaux: No. 3, Berceuse
2748Violin Sonatine in A Minor: I. Adagio
19092 Pieces for Piano: Sérénade
18810Deux pièces pour piano: No. 2, Sérénade, VWV 3015
163albums
Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet by Jan-Peter Klöpfel)
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Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatina - Paul Viardot: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3
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Viardot: Deux pièces pour piano: No. 2, Sérénade, VWV 3015
Pauline Viardot: 2 Pieces for Piano: Sérénade
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Ladies' Night
Viardot: Le Dernier Sorcier: Chanson de la pluie
Viardot: Songs
Chant d'amour
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Belle Excentrique
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Il Salotto Vol. 3: Viardot Cendrillon
Viardot: Le dernier sorcier
12 Poems: No. 12, Die Sterne, VWV 1059