Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García
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Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (Zafra, March 17, 1805 - London, July 1, 1906), commonly refered to as Manuel Garcia II. was a Spanish singer and music educator. He was the son of singer, teacher Manuel del Popolo Vicente García (Manuel Garcia I). After abandoning a career on stage (he was a baritone tenor), Garcia began to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy of Music, London (1848–95). Jenny Lind, Mathilde Marchesi, Marie Tempest, Julius Stockhausen and Henry Wood were among his pupils.
He published the treatise "Traité complet de l'Art du Chant."
According to some sources, he invented the laryngoscope in 1854 and the next year published observations of his own larynx and vocal cords made with a small dental mirror introduced into the throat and using sunlight reflected by another mirror. Garcia was interested in movements connected with the production of the singing voice and did not anticipate the importance of laryngoscopy for medicine. Still, the University of Königsberg conferred upon him the degree of M.D. He died in 1906 at the age of 101 years.
[edit] References
- S. Mackinlay, Garcia the Centenarian and his Time (London, 1908)
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