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Angelica Catalani was an Italian singer. She was born in 1779, and died in 1849. Family misfortunes compelled her to turn her remarkable voice to employment as a singer, and when she was 16 she made her first appearance on the stage at Venice. After filling the chief soprano parts in the best opera-houses of Italy she visited successively Madrid, Paris, and London, enjoying everywhere great professional triumphs, as she continued to do in similar tours which she repeatedly made afterwards. In 1830 she retired.
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Angelica Catalani was an Italian singer. She was born in 1779, and died in 1849. Family misfortunes compelled her to turn her remarkable voice to employment as a singer, and when she was 16 she made her first appearance on the stage at Venice. After filling the chief soprano parts in the best opera-houses of Italy she visited successively Madrid, Paris, and London, enjoying everywhere great professional triumphs, as she continued to do in similar tours which she repeatedly made afterwards. In 1830 she retired.
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Angelica Catalani was an Italian singer. She was born in 1779 at Sinigaglia and died in 1849. She made her debut as a soprano at Venice in 1795 and for some thirty years was almost unrivalled. Her voice was of great power, sweetness and flexibility with a compass which extended to G in altissimo. After singing at Lisbon from 1801 to 1806 she went to London and remained there until 1814 when she went to Paris and assumed the direction of the Italian Opera. In 1816 she made a tour through Europe. In 1822 she appeared again in London.
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Joan Baez is an American professional folksinger. She was Born in 1941 at Staten Island. She studied at Boston University, but left to sing in Boston coffee houses. Her clear soprano voice and simple, effective guitar accompaniments created a distinctive style that became increasingly popular after her Newport Folk Festival appearance in 1959 and her recording debut in 1960. Baez worked for civil rights, in the antiwar movement, and for human rights in south-east Asia, both through her singing and by founding Humanitas, an international human rights organization, and the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence.
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Luisa Tetrazzini was an Italian soprano singer. She was born in 1874 at Florence and died in 1940. She studied operatic singing at Florence under Ceccherini and made her debut in L'Africaine at Florence in 1895. Afterwards she toured in Rome, South America, Mexico and the USA before first appearing in London in 1907. In 1913 she became a member of the Chicago Opera Company, leaving in 1914. Her autobiography was published in 1921 under the title 'My Life of Song'.
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Milton Byron Babbitt is an American composer. He was born in 1916 at Philadelphia. He studied with the American composer Roger Sessions and joined the Princeton University faculty in 1938, and in 1959 he helped found the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In 1982 he was awarded a Pulitzer Special Citation for his life's work. His works include 'Philomel' written in 1964, for soprano and magnetic tape, and 'Concerti for Violin, Small Orchestra', and the 1976 Synthesized Tape.
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Sidney Bechet was an American jazz musician. He was born in 1897 at New Orleans and died in 1959. Originally a jazz clarinet player, he took up the soprano saxophone in 1919 and was the first significant saxophone players in jazz.
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Teresa Carolina Johanna Tietjens was a German operatic singer. She was born in 1831 at Hamburg and died in 1877. Of Hungarian parentage, she made her first appearance on the stage at Hamburg in 1849 and by 1856 had become one of the foremost singers of her time. Her mezzo-soprano voice and capable dramatic powers made her widely famous. Her success in 'Les Hugenots' during her first visit to London in 1858 led to her moving to England.
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Jessye Norman is an American soprano opera singer and actress. She was born in 1945 at Augusta, Georgia. She made her debut as an opera singer in 1969 at Berlin and first appeared in Britain at La Scala and Covent Garden in 1972.
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In music, alto was formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now it is the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
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