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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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CARL

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

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