Giovanni Battista Lamperti

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Giovanni Battista Lamperti (photographer Wilhelm Höffert )

Giovanni Battista Lamperti (born March 18, 1839 in Milan , † June 24, 1910 in Berlin ) was an Italian singing teacher.

Life

Lamperti was the son of Francesco Lamperti , who was also a singing teacher. At the age of nine he became a choirboy in the choir of the Milan Cathedral . He studied singing and piano at the Conservatorio di Milano and later worked there as a piano accompanist for his father's singing class. He taught in Milan, then for 20 years in Dresden and then in Berlin . Around 1890 one of his students in Dresden, William Earl Brown, recorded Lamperti's aphorisms. Marcella Sembrich , Ernestine Schumann-Heink , Paul Bulß , Emilie Tagliana and Roberto Stagno were among his other singing students .

literature

  • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians , (Nicolas Slonimsky, ed.) New York, G. Schirmer, 1958
  • The technique of Bel Canto . English translation by Theodore Baker, New York, 1905
  • Scuola di Canto . (8 volumes of solfeggi and exercises)
  • William Earl Brown: Vocal Wisdom. Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti , New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1931

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Earl Brown: Vocal Wisdom. Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti , New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1931
personal data
SURNAME Lamperti, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1910
Place of death Berlin