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Viardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910

LC control no.n 50019659
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LC classificationML420.V36 Biography
Personal name headingViardot-García, Pauline, 1821-1910
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Variant(s)Виардо, Полина, 1821-1910
Viardo, Polina, 1821-1910
Viardot, Pauline, 1821-1910
Виардо-Гарсиа, Полина, 1821-1910
Viardo-Garsia, Polina, 1821-1910
Garcia, Pauline Viardot-, 1821-1910
Гарсиа, Мишель-Фердинанда-Полина, 1821-1910
Garsia, Mishelʹ-Ferdinanda-Polina, 1821-1910
Garsia, Polina, 1821-1910
Viardot-García, Michelle Ferdinande Pauline, 1821-1910
Other standard no.000000010915619X
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Q122998
Associated countryFrance
Associated placeEurope
Birth date1821-07-18
Death date1910-05-18
Place of birthParis (France)
Place of deathParis (France)
Field of activitySinging Composition (Music) Opera
Profession or occupationMezzo-sopranos Composers Voice teachers
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Found inHéritte de la Tour, L. Mémoires de Louise Héritte-Viardot ... 1923.
Rozanov, A. Polina Viardo-Garsia, 1982: t.p. (Polina Viardo-Garsia) p. 7 (Mishelʹ-Ferdinanda-Polina Garsia) plate 4 (Polina Garsia)
Norton/Grove dict. of women composers (Viardot (née García), (Michelle Ferdinande) Pauline; b. July 18, 1821, Paris, d. May 18, 1910, Paris; French mezzo-soprano, composer and singing teacher, of Spanish origin)
Baker, 8th ed. (Viardot-García, (Michelle Ferdinande) Pauline)
New York times, 17 July 2021: in an article entitled, "New attention for a 19th Century opera queen" on page C2 (Pauline Viardot; born Michelle-Pauline-Ferdinande-Laurence Garcia on 18 July 1821 in Paris; daughter of Manuel Garcia, an international opera star; with a voice of uncommon range and flexibility, [Pauline] Viardot became famous on Europe's major stages in signature roles; composers sought her out for important premieres; following her father, she was a gifted composer as well as a brilliant singer; Viardot wrote hundreds of pieces, the majority of them songs for solo voice and piano; true to her specialty, Viardot also wrote operas)