Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García

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Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García

Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (born March 17, 1805 in Zafra , Spain, † July 1, 1906 in London ) was a Spanish opera singer ( baritone ), singing teacher and music teacher . He is considered the inventor of the larynxoscopy.

Life

Manuel García came from a Spanish family of singers. His father was the opera singer and composer Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García (1775–1832), his mother was Maria-Joaquina Sitches (1780–1864) and his two sisters were Maria Malibran (1808–1836) and Pauline Viardot-García (1821– 1910). He was married to the soprano Eugénie Mayer (1818-1880), from whose marriage the baritone Gustave García comes. He got his family name from his stepfather Jerónimo Rodríguez García according to old Spanish custom.

He was tutored in Seville by Antonio Ripa and J. Almarcha and made his debut in Cadiz in a tonadilla .

After finishing his operatic career, Manuel García taught at the Academy of Sciences (1830–1847), at the Paris Conservatory (1847–1850) and at the Royal Academy in London (1848–1895).

García has studied the anatomy of the larynx , especially the fibers in the muscles . In 1855 he managed to see his own larynx with a dentist's mirror (by Joseph Frédéric Charrière ) and a second mirror and to observe the movements while singing. Since then, he has been honored as the inventor of laryngoscopy (laryngoscopy). García was mainly interested in laryngoscopy to clarify the functions of the larynx when singing, not so much in the medical aspect. Nevertheless, in 1862 he received an honorary medical doctorate from the University of Königsberg .

student

Fonts

Laryngoscopy. From: Garcia, 1884
  • Mémoire sur la voix humaine, présenté à l'Académie des Sciences en 1840 . Encyclographie des sciences médicales, Bruxelles, 1840, p. 391 ( online here at Google Books )
  • École de Garcia. Traité complet de l'art du chant par Manuel Garcia fils . Schott, Mainz and Paris 1840 (part 1), 1847 (part 2).
  • Garcia's School, or The Art of Singing, in all its parts, completely treated by Manuel Garcia . German text by C. Wirth. Schott, Mainz 1841; second part also in the magazine Caecilia in volume 26 (1847), issue 104 ( digitized volume 1 and volume 2 of the Berlin University of the Arts)
  • École de Garcia. Traité complet de l'art du chant . (Volume 1 and 2 together). Schott, Mainz and Paris 1856.
Revisions
  • Observations on the Human Voice . London 1855. Verlag Maximilian Hörberg, Munich 2007.
  • Garcia's School or The Art of Singing. New, edited in abbreviated form by F. Volbach . B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1909.
  • École de Garcia. Traité complet de l'art du chant en deux parties . Minkoff, Geneva 1985, ISBN 2-8266-0817-7 .

literature

  • Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay: Garcia the centenarian and his times . Da Capo Press, New York 1976. Reprint of the edition New York 1908 (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series).
  • Lucía Díaz Marroquín, Mario Villoria: La práctica del canto según M. García. Ejercicios y arias de ópera del "Tratado completo del arte del canto" . Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid 2013, ISBN 978-84-00-09570-3 .
  • Byron Cantrell: Hints on singing by Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García . Summit Publications, Canoga Park 1970. Reprint of the edition London, New York 1894.
  • Karl Wolff (Ed.): Manuel Garcia. For his hundredth birthday . Cologne 1905. New edition: Verlag Maximilian Hörberg, Munich 2007.
  • Christian v. Deuster: Garcia, Manuel Patricio Rodriguz. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 456 f.

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personal data
SURNAME García, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pópolo Vicente, Manuel del (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish opera singer (baritone) and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Zafra , Spain
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1906
Place of death London