Lamperti, Giovanni Battista
Lamperti, Giovanni Battista
Lamperti, Giovanni Battista, Italian singing teacher, son of Francesco Lamperti; b. Milan, June 24, 1839; d. Berlin, March 18, 1910. At the age of 9 he was a choirboy at the Milan Cathedral. He studied piano and voice at the Milan Cons., where he served as accompanist in his father’s class. He taught first in Milan, then subsequently in Dresden for 20 years and in Berlin. Among his pupils were Sembrich, Schumann-Heink, Bispham, and Stagno. He publ. Die Technik des Bel Canto (1905; Eng. ed. by T. Baker, N.Y., 1905), Scuola di canto (8 vols, of solfeggi and vocalises), and other technical exercises. His pupil W.E. Brown publ. Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of G.B. Lamperti (N.Y., 1931; new ed., 1957).
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