Delle Sedie, Enrico
Delle Sedie, Enrico
Delle Sedie, Enrico , Italian baritone and singing teacher; b. Livorno, June 17, 1822; d. La Garennes Colombes, near Paris, Nov. 28, 1907. His teachers were Galeffi, Persanola, and Domeniconi. After imprisonment as a revolutionist (1848), he resumed the study of singing and made his debut in San Casciano (1851) in Verdi’s Nabucco. Until 1861 he sang in the principal Italian cities; appeared in London in 1861, and then was engaged at the Theatre-Italien, Paris, and was prof, of singing in the Cons. (1867–71); was regarded as one of the best singing teachers in Paris. His basic manuals, Arte efisiologia del canto (Milan, 1876; in French as L’Art lyrique, Paris, 1876) and L’estetica del canto e dell’arte melodrammatica (Milan, 1886), were publ. in N.Y. in Eng. as Vocal Art (3 parts) and Esthetics of the Art of Singing, and of the Melodrama (4 vols.). A condensation (by the author) of both manuals was publ. in 1 vol. as A Complete Method of Singing (N.Y., 1894).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire