Giuseppe Carboni (composer)

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Giuseppe Angelo Carboni (* 1866 in Venice , † February 9, 1934 in Toronto ) was a Canadian singing teacher , conductor and composer of Italian origin.

Carboni studied in Vienna and Paris and then worked in Germany and Austria as an opera conductor and for seven years as a vocal coach at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. In 1915 he went to Toronto. There he became director of vocal training at the Hambourg Conservatory and choir director at Our Lady of Lourdes Church and St. Joseph's College; he held the latter positions until his death.

With students he presented performances of seldom performed operas such as Ferdinando Paërs Le Maître de Chapelle , Adolphe Adams Le Chalet and Charles Gounod's Philémon et Baucis . After leaving the Hambourg Conservatory, he ran his own singing studio. His numerous students included Jeanne Dusseau , J. Elcho Fiddes , Redferne Hollinshead , Ivy Dale , Kenneth Sakos , Mabel Manley Pickard and Jeanne Pengelly . Carboni composed two operettas ( Don Decubito , 1887 and Il camariere astuto , 1888), both of which premiered in Venice.

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