Pauline Viardot (pronounced [po.lin vjaʁ.do]; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent...
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mystery. Scheffer was a confidant of Pauline Viardot and a friend of the Viardot family all his life. In 1874, Viardot was paralyzed by a stroke and remained...
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three acts by Pauline Viardot based on the story of Cinderella. The work, for a cast of seven with piano orchestration, premiered in Viardot's Paris salon...
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Paris, often in proximity to the family of the celebrated opera singer Pauline Viardot, with whom he had a lifelong affair. Turgenev never married, but he...
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Consuelo was supposedly modeled after Louis Viardot's wife, the soprano Pauline Viardot. Pauline Viardot was a good friend of both Sand's and of her lover...
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child of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot. In 1863 Viardot married Ernest...
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García I, 1775–1832). His sisters were Maria Malibran (1808–1836) and Pauline Viardot (1821–1910). After abandoning his onstage career as a baritone, García...
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celebrated mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran, and his second daughter was Pauline Viardot, a musician of consequence and, as a singer, one of "the most brilliant...
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Maria's younger sister, Pauline, who would later become a famous singer in her own right under the name of Pauline Viardot, was then only four years...
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an impetus by, and provided a central role for, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. It was presented only nine times in its initial production, but was...
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composer Pauline Viardot. The Belgian violinist Charles de Bériot, second husband of Paul's aunt, Maria Malibran, remained close to the Viardots and took...
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its rhythms are more that of the polonaise. He was a close friend of Pauline Viardot, the daughter of the famed Spanish tenor Manuel García, who had introduced...
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(1818–1893) Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) Charles-Louis Hanon (1819–1900) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) César Franck (1822–1890) Édouard Lalo (1823–1892) Joseph...
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swimmer Pauline Vanier (1898–1991), Canadian vice-regal consort Pauline (singer) (Pauline Vasseur) (b. 1988), French singer Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)...
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French mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot that she should perform the role of Orfeo. The composer Hector Berlioz was a close friend of Viardot and the leading expert...
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composer met in Rome were the singer Pauline Viardot and the pianist Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn. Viardot became of great help to Gounod in...
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composer Pauline Viardot. All three children were gifted and benefited from the early training by their father. On her husband's death, when Pauline was not...
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told through the biographies of Pauline Viardot, the opera singer, composer and salon hostess, her husband Louis Viardot, an art expert and theatre manager...
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chamber music society La Trompette, followed by another at the home of Pauline Viardot with an audience including Franz Liszt, a friend of the composer, who...
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failed to gain the public's interest. That year acclaimed mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, for whom Saint-Saëns wrote the role of Dalila, organized and performed...
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Daughter Cassell & Co, London (1885) Waddington, Patrick. 'Dickens, Pauline Viardot, Turgenev: A Study in Mutual Admiration', New Zealand Slavonic Journal...
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piano in 1866; the latter had previously been set by Chabrier in 1862. Pauline Viardot set Musset's poem "Madrid" for voice and piano as part of her 6 Mélodies...
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His like-minded younger sister, Pauline Viardot (1821–1910), was also an important teacher of voice, as were Viardot's contemporaries Mathilde Marchesi...
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in which he directed some of the world's great singers including Pauline Viardot, Christina Nilsson, Marcella Sembrich, the brothers Edouard and Jean...
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Nicolaus Vetter (1666–1734) Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560 – 1627) Pauline Viardot (1821–1910) Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548 – 1611) Gerard Victory...
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artists in Paris. He was frequently invited for dinner with Louis Viardot and Pauline Viardot-Garcia in rue Douai 50, where Turgenev occupied the top floor...
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Among the visitors to Nohant were Delacroix and the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, whom Chopin had advised on piano technique and composition. Delacroix...
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Corgi; pp. 34–77 Kendall-Davies, Barbara (2003). The Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 1-904303-27-7. Livia...
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London, including Berlioz, Kalkbrenner, Liszt, Moscheles, Thalberg and Pauline Viardot and, importantly for Goldschmidt's career, Jenny Lind. She, always...
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Louis and Scheffer (Scheffer was the best friend of Louis Viardot, husband of Pauline Viardot) has always been my dearest of friends, and it is sad, that...
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