Francesco Lamperti was an Italian

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 singing teacher.

A native of Savona

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, Lamperti attended the Milan

Milan

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 Conservatory where, beginning in 1850, he taught for a quarter of a century. He was director at the Teatro Filodrammatico in Lodi. In 1875 he left the school and began to teach as a private tutor. Among his pupils were Sophie Cruvelli

Sophie Cruvelli

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, Emma Albani

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, Gottardo Aldighieri

Gottardo Aldighieri

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, Désirée Artôt

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, Sona Aslanova

Sona Aslanova

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, David Bispham

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, Italo Campanini

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, Virgilio Collini, Franz Ferenczy

Franz Ferenczy

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, Friederike Grün

Friederike Grün

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, Teresa Stolz

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, Marie van Zandt

Marie van Zandt

Marie van Zandt was an American soprano.Born in New York City, van Zandt was the daughter of Jennie van Zandt, who had sung at La Scala and at New York's Academy of Music. She studied in Milan with Francesco Lamperti, making her debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Turin in 1879...

, Maria Waldmann

Maria Waldmann

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, and Herbert Witherspoon

Herbert Witherspoon

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. His methods were very similar to older Italian methods, and he wrote a number of treatise

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s on the subject.

Lamperti was created a Commander of the Crown of Italy

Order of the Crown of Italy

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 for his services to music. He died in Como

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 in 1892.

His son Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Giovanni Battista Lamperti was an Italian singing teacher and son of the singing teacher Francesco Lamperti. He is the author of The Technics of Bel Canto and source for Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti .-Life and career:Giovanni Battista Lamperti was born in 1839 in Milan to...

(1839–1910) was also a well-known voice teacher.

Publications

• Guida teorico-pratica-elementare per lo studio del canto. Milan: Ricordi, 1864.
• Studi di bravura per soprano. Translated as Studies in bravura singing for the soprano voice. New York: 1875.
• Esercizi giornalieri per soprano o mezzo-soprano
• L'arte del canto. Milan: Ricordi, 1883.
• Osservationi e cosiglin sul trillo
• Solfeggi
• A Treatise on the Art of Singing. Translated by J. C. Griffith. London: Ricordi, 1877. Revised edition: New York: Edward Schuberth, 1890. (There also maybe an edition by G. Schirmer).

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