In presenting this Memoir of Don Manuel Garcia, I wish to thank those friends and pupils of the Maestro who have assisted me with reminiscences, photographs, and other material. But especially I would thank Mrs Alec Tweedie for the kind way in which she read through the MS., when it was still in a rough state, and made many invaluable suggestions with regard to its arrangement and improvement generally. M. S. M. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MUSICAL CLUB, LEICESTER SQUARE, _March 1908_. CONTENTS. FIRST PERIOD. PREPARATION. (1805-1830.) CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 3 II. GARCIA'S CHILDHOOD IN SPAIN (1805-1814) 13 III. NAPLES (1814-1816) 25 IV. PARIS AND LONDON (1816-1825) 40 V. OPERA IN AMERICA (1825-1826) 57 VI. NEW YORK AND MEXICO (1826-1827) 73 VII. OPERATIC CAREER ABANDONED (1828-1830) 86 SECOND PERIOD. PARIS. (1830-1848.) VIII. MARIA MALIBRAN'S TRIUMPHS (1830-1836) 105 IX. PAULINE VIARDOT-GARCIA (1837-1841) 125 X. JENNY LIND (1841-1842) 139 XI. SOME FAMOUS PUPILS (1842-1848) 156 XII. CLOSE OF PARIS CAREER (1848) 169 THIRD PERIOD. LONDON. (1848-1895.) XIII. ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND (1848-1854) 183 XIV. THE LARYNGOSCOPE (1854-1857) 201 XV. CHARLES SANTLEY AND ANTOINETTE STERLING (1857-1873) 214 XVI. TWENTY YEARS OF MUSIC (1853-1873) 225 XVII. THREE-SCORE YEARS AND TEN (1874-1890) 237 XVIII. AN OCTOGENARIAN AUTHOR (1890-1895) 256 FOURTH PERIOD. RETIREMENT. (1895-1906.) XIX. A NONAGENARIAN TEACHER (1895-1905) 277 XX. THE CENTENARY HONOURS (MARCH 17, 1905) 298 XXI. LAST DAYS (1905-1906) 318 INDEX 325 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. CENTENARY PORTRAIT OF MANUEL GARCIA _Frontispiece_ Painted by John S. Sargent. TO FACE PAGE THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN OF SPAIN _Dedication_ MANUEL GARCIA'S MOTHER 12 MANUEL GARCIA'S FATHER 24 MARIA MALIBRAN 106 PAULINE VIARDOT 124