GARCIA (DEL POPOLO VICENTO), MANOEL (1775-1832), Spanish tenor singer and composer, was born in Seville on Jan. 22, 1775. At 17 he made his debut on the stage at Cadiz, in an operetta which included songs of his own composition. He had already a considerable reputation as a composer of light operas and as an operatic singer when he appeared in Paris in 1808, in Paer's opera Griselda. At Naples later he created some famous roles in Rossini's operas, and sang them until 1816 when he visited London and Paris. Between 1819 and 1823 he lived in Paris, singing in Il Barbiere, Otello, Don Giovanni, etc., and producing some operas of his own—he wrote about I oo in all— of which La Morte di Tasso was the most important. But his greatest work was done as a teacher of singing in London and Paris. Of his principles and method he left an account in his Metado di Canto, the substance of which was subsequently in corporated by his son Manoel in his admirable Traite complet de l'art do chant (1847) . He died in Paris on June 2, 183 2.
His son, Manoel Garcia who celebrated his hun dredth birthday in London on March 17, 1905, was born at Madrid, and as a teacher became no less famous than his father. He was a professor at the Paris Conservatoire (183o-48), at the Royal Academy of Music, London (1848-95), and will be remem bered, it is safe to say, so long as the art of singing is studied, as the inventor of the laryngoscope.
See M. Sterling Mackinlay, Garcia the Centenarian and his Times (London, 1908) .