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Adelina Patti Born ( 1843-02-10 ) 10 February 1843 Madrid, Spain Died 27 September 1919 (1919-09-27) (aged 76) Craig-y-Nos Castle, Wales Occupation Coloratura soprano Label(s) Gramophone and Typewriter Company Adelina Patti (10 February 1843 – 27 September 1919) [1] was an Italian-French 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique. The composer Giuseppe Verdi, writing in 1877, described her as being perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a "stupendous artist". [2] Verdi's admiration for Patti's talent was shared by nume...

The Hanover Square Rooms on the Southeast corner of Hanover Square (l) and Hanover Street (r) The Hanover Square Rooms or the Queen's Concert Rooms were assembly rooms established, principally for musical performances, on the corner of Hanover Square, London, by Sir John Gallini in partnership with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel in 1774. For exactly one century this was the principal concert venue in London. The premises were demolished in 1900. Contents 1 History of the Rooms 2 Gallery 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links History of the Rooms Queen Adelaide attending a fair in aid of distressed foreigners in the Rooms in 1833 Detail of Hanover Square from Richard Horwood's 1795 map of London. The Hanover Square Rooms are marked as "concert rooms" next to No.4 Hanover Square (click 3x for detail). Programme from May 1st 1826 1791 advertisement for three of the Op.64 string quartets of Joseph Hay...

Carlotta Patti Background information Born c. 1840 Died 27 June 1889 Paris, France Genres Opera Occupation(s) Soprano Years active 1861–1879 [1] Carlotta Patti (c. 1840 – 27 June 1889 [1] ) was a nineteenth-century operatic soprano and sister to famed soprano Adelina Patti. Various sources list her birth year as 1835, [1] 1840, [2] and 1842. [3] Born into a musical family, Patti studied the piano in her youth before following her younger sister's inclination toward singing. As a child, Carlotta developed a handicap which caused a noticeable limp in her walk. Due to this condition she mostly avoided operatic performances and preferred to sing on the concert stage. While not able to achieve her sister's level of acclaim, Carlotta nonetheless received top billing in concerts in the United States of America, Great Britain, and Australia. [1] [3] She was known for her extensive vocal range, reportedly being able to reach a G sharp in altissimo. [4]...

Liszt in March 1886, four months before his death, photographed by Nadar Franz Liszt ( German: [ˈlɪst] ; Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz , in modern usage Liszt Ferenc [ˈlist ˈfɛrɛnt͡s] ; [n 1] 22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. [1] As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School ( Neudeutsche Schule ). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced h...