The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
García, Manuel del Popolo Vicente
(mänwl´ dl pp´l vthn´t gärth´ä) (KEY) , 1775–1832, Spanish tenor, teacher, impresario, and composer. His daughter was Maria Malibran. He was the first to produce opera in Italian in New York (1825–26) and in Mexico (1827–28). Pauline Viardot-García was also his daughter. His son, Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (pätr´thy rdr´gth) (KEY) , 1805–1906, left (1829) the operatic stage to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy, London (1848–95). Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi were among his pupils. He invented (1854) the laryngoscope.
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