GARCIA, a Spanish family of musicians, who have been well characterised as ‘representative artists, whose power, genius, and originality have impressed a permanent trace on the record of the methods of vocal execution and ornament
’ (Chorley). The founder of the family, Manuel del-Popolo-Vicente, was born at Seville . Beginning as a chorister in the Cathedral at the age of 6, at 17 he was already well known as composer, singer, actor, and conductor. By 1805 he had established...
