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CARL AUGUST NICHOLAS ROSA (1843-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST See also:NICHOLAS See also:ROSA (1843-1889)  , See also:English musical impresario, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg, his See also:family name (which he subsequently changed) being See also:Rose . He started as a See also:solo violinist, studying at See also:Leipzig and See also:Paris, and also had considerable success as a conductor both in See also:England and See also:America; and it was at New See also:York in 1867 that he met and married the famous operatic See also:soprano Madame Parepa (1836-1874), at whose See also:death he afterwards endowed a Parepa-See also:Rosa scholarship at the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Music in See also:London . In 1875 he started the Carl Rosa See also:Opera See also:Company, for producing the best operas in English versions, and both during his own See also:life and after his death this company had much to do with popularizing See also:good music in England, encouraging native colnpesers and training a number of excellent singers . Carl Rosa married a second See also:time in 1881, and died in Paris on the 3oth of See also:April 1889 .

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