See also:JOHN See also:BRAHAM (c. 1774-1856)
, See also:English vocalist, was See also:born in See also:London about 1774, of Jewish parentage, his real name being See also:Abraham
.
His See also:father and See also:mother died when he was quite See also:young
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Having received lessons in singing from an See also:Italian artist named Leoni, he made his first See also:appearance in public at Covent See also:Garden See also:theatre on the 21st of See also:April x787, when he sang " The soldier tired of See also:war's alarms " and " Ma there arrive." On the breaking of his See also:voice, he had to support himself by,, teaching the
See also:pianoforte
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In a few years, however, he recovered his voice, which proved to be a See also:tenor of exceptionally pure and See also:rich quality
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His second debut was made in 1794 at the See also:Bath concerts, to the conductor of which, Rauzzini, he was indebted for careful training extending over a See also:period of more than two years
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In 1796 he reappeared in London at See also:Drury See also:Lane in See also:Storace's See also:opera of Mahmoud
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Such was his success that he obtained an engagement the next See also:year to appear in the Italian opera See also:house in See also:Gretry's Azor et Zemire
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He also sang in oratorios and was engaged for the Three See also:Choir festival at See also:Gloucester
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With the view of perfecting himself in his See also:art he set out for See also:Italy in the autumn of 1797
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On the way he gave some concerts at See also:Paris, which proved so successful that he was induced to remain there for eight months
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His career in Italy was one of continuous See also:triumph; he appeared in all the See also:principal opera-houses, singing in See also:Milan, See also:Genoa, See also:Leghorn and See also:Venice
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His See also:compass embraced about nineteen notes, his management of the falsetto being perfect
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In 18oi he returned to his native See also:country, and appeared once more at Covent Garden in the opera Chains of the See also:Heart, by Mazzinghi and See also:Reeve
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So See also:great was his popularity that an engagement he had made when abroad to return after a year to See also:Vienna was renounced, and he remained henceforward in See also:England
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In 1824 he sang the See also:part of Max in the English version of See also:Weber's Der See also:Freischutz, and he was the See also:original See also:Sir Huon in that composer's See also:Oberon in 1826
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See also:Braham made two unfortunate speculations on a large See also:scale, one being the See also:purchase of the Colosseum in the See also:Regent's See also:Park in 1831 for £40,000, and the other the erection of the St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's theatre at a cost of £26,000 in 1836
.
In 1838 he sang the part of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Tell at Drury Lane, and in 1839 the part of See also:Don Giovanni
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His last public appearance was at a See also:concert in See also:March 1852
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He died on the 17th of See also:February 1856
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There is, perhaps, no other See also:case upon See also:record in which a See also:singer of the first See also:rank enjoyed the use of his voice so See also:long; between Braham's first and last public appearances considerably more than sixty years intervened, during See also:forty of which he held the undisputed supremacy alike in opera, See also:oratorio and the concert-See also:room
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Braham was the composer of a number of vocal pieces, which being sung by himself had great temporary popularity, though they had little See also:intrinsic merit, and are now deservedly forgotton
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A partial exception must be made in favour of " The See also:Death of See also:Nelson," originally written in 1811 as a portion of the opera The See also:American; this still keeps its See also:place as a See also:standard popular English See also:song
.
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