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Garden, Mary

soprano, vocals


born: 20 Feb 1874 Aberdeen, Scotland Source: 1  

born: 20 Feb 1874 Source: 2,3,4,5  
born: 20 Feb 1877 Source: 6,7,8,9,10,11  
born: ------- 1877 Source: 12,13  

died: 03 Jan 1967 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire / county, Scotland Source: 1  
died: ------------ Aberdeen, Scotland Source: 2,3,4,5  

date of Variety obit: 11 Jan 1967  

active: Baltimore, Maryland / state, USA  

debut with Paris Opera: 1908 Paris, France  

The Music Sack has 109 items with information about Mary Garden
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 1995

Pearson, E.H.
The other Traviata : Hamilton Forrest's Camille
Opera Quarterly: 11:17-38 N2 1995
       il mus notes port

Number of People : 1


 1995

Pearson, E.H.
Correspondence J.M. Alfonte. Reply
Opera Quarterly: 12:157-8 N2 1995-1996

Number of People : 1


 1995

Pearce, J.
Recordings Two vintage sopranos (Mary Garden; the Complete Victor Recordings (1926-29); Edith Mason; the Complete Recordings (1924-28)) (Romophone)
Opera Quarterly: 11:157-64 N3 1995
       notes

Number of People : 1


 1992

Heister, Hanns-Werner
Sparrer, Walter-Wolfgang
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Edition Text+Kritik
Herausgegeben von Hanns-Werner Heister und Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer
1992

Number of People : 480


 1991

Addenda und Corrigenda zum Hauptwerk

p. 1133-1954 In:
Kutsch, Karl J.
Riemens, Leo
Grosses Sangerlexikon. Erganzungsband [I]
Bern: Francke, 1991, 2002 columns

Number of People : 4,103


 1990

Artist Index

p. 649-679 In:
Kelly, Alan
His Master's Voice; La Voix de son Maitre; the French catalogue.
A complete numerical catalogue ...
Compiled by Alan Kelly...
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990

Number of People : 1,204


 1990

Marchand, Miguel Patron
100 grandes cantantes del pasado
Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andres Bello, 1990, 263 p.

Number of People : 100


 1989

Remy, Pierre-Jean
Covent Garden : Royal Opera House
Paris: Sand, 1989, 249 p.

Number of People : 19


 1989 Source: 3

Paris, Alain
Dictionnaire des interpretes : et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siecle.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1989

Number of People : 2,306


 1989

Pennino, J.
Mary Garden and the American press
Opera Quarterly: 6:61-75 N4 1989
       il ports

Number of People : 1


 1989

Performer Index : Conductors

p. 547-557 In:
Myers, Kurtz
Index to record reviews 1984-1987 : based on material ... 1984 AND 1987
Compiled and edited by Kurtz Myers
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1989, 639 p.

Number of People : 20,297


 1989

Godefroid, Philippe
Divines & divas
Paris: Editions Plumi, 1989

Number of People : 77


 1988

Ardoin, John
Operatic shadows
Opera Quarterly: 6:52+ N1 1988
       il port
       Note: opera singers in films
       Note: includes list of opera singers with films in which they appeared

Number of People : 1


 1988

Spaeth, J.
Sounding symbols
Opera News 52:12-14+ Jan 30 1988
       il port
       Note: Maeterlinck, Debussy and Pelleas et Melisande

Number of People : 1


 1988

Sills, Beverly
Studying with Garden and Ponselle
Opera (England) 39:270-73 Mar 1988

Number of People : 1


 1987

Riemens, Leo
Kutsch, Karl J.
Grosses Sangerlexikon
Bern: Francke, 1987, 3452 columns in two volumes p.

Number of People : 6,910


 1986 Source: 11

Blanchard, Roger
Cande, Roland de
Dieux et divas de l'opera : de 1820 a 1950 grandeur et decadence du bel canto
Roger Blanchard et Roland de Cande
Paris: Plon, 1986, 478 p.

Number of People : 127


 1986

Emmons, S.
Voices from the past : Mary Garden
Nats Journal: 42:30-34+ N4 1986
       biog port

Number of People : 1


 1986

Kesting, Jurgen
Die grossen sanger
Dusseldorf: Claassen, 1986, 3 VOLS p.

Number of People : 261


 1986

Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.

Number of People : 3,993


 1985

Green, L.
Great singers : previously unpublished recordings (Voce)
Opera Quarterly: 3:85-6 N2 1985

Number of People : 1


 1984

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
Mary Garden (1874-1967)
Opera (England) 35:1078-84 Oct 1984
       ports

Number of People : 1


 1984

Mordden, Ethan
Demented : the World of the Opera Diva
New York: Franklin Watts, 1984. 310 p.
       24 illus., 27-item bibliography, index.

Number of People : 27


 1983 Source: 5

Pitou, Spire
The Paris Opera.
An encyclopedia of operas, ballets, composers, and performers; growth and grandeur, 1815-1914
New York: Greenwood Press, 1983

Number of People : 309


 1983

Mish, Herman
Tuggle, Robert A.
The golden age of opera
By Robert Tuggle.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983, 246 p.
       Note: With the photographs of Herman Mish

Number of People : 106


 1983

Leading Female Singers, 1671-1982

p. 345-348 In:
Pitou, Spire
The Paris opera.
An encyclopedia of operas, ballets, composers, and performers; genesis and glory, 1671-1715
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983

Number of People : 266


 1983

Ardoin, John
Namara : a remembrance
Opera Quarterly: 1:76-8 N4 1983

Number of People : 1


 1982

Nanquette, Claude
Les grands interpretes romantiques
Paris: Fayard, 1982

Number of People : 54


 1982

Henderson, R.
Busoni, Gozzi, Prokofiev and The Oranges
Opera (England) 33:458-64 May 1982
       il port

Number of People : 1


 1982

Riemens, Leo
Kutsch, Karl J.
Unvergangliche Stimmen Sangerlexikon
Karl J. Kutsch, Leo Riemens
Bern: Francke, 1982, 782 p.

Number of People : 3,755


 1982

Index

p. 313-343 In:
Keefer, Lubov Breit
Baltimore's music
The haven of the American composer
Baltimore: 1982, 343 p.

Number of People : 3,293


 1981

Schonberg, Harold C.
Facing the Music
New York: Summit Books, 1981.464 p.
       Note: A series of republlshed revlews and articles

Number of People : 7


 1981

Wagenknecht, Edward
Seven daughters of the theater : Jenny Lind, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Julia Marlowe, Isadora Duncan, Mary Garden, Marilyn Monroe.
New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press 1981. X, 234 S.
       Mit Ill.
      (Series: A Da Capo Paperback)
       [Reprint, Orig. publ.: Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Pn. 1964.]

Number of People : 7


 1980 Source: 1

Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
London: Macmillan, 1980

Number of People : 20,506


 1980

Performer Index : Vocalist

p. 367- In:
Myers, Kurtz
Index to record reviews
Compiled and edited by Kurtz Myers
Vol. 5: indexes
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1980, 664 p.

Number of People : 6,282


 1980

Index

The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.

Number of People : 101,729


 1979

Our artists their opinions their songs
[Pathe Freres catalogue 1904]
Talking Machine News, 1979, p. 1492

Number of People : 43


 1979

Mary Garden spoke up for ragtime.
Ragtimer, the, Mar-Apr 1979, p. 16-17

Number of People : 1


 1979 Source: 2

Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984

Number of People : 16,262


 1978

Ewen, David
Musicians since 1900 : performers in concert and opera
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson, 1978, 974 p.

Number of People : 432


 1977

Schang, F.C.
Visiting cards of prima donnas
New York: Vantage Press, 1977

Number of People : 38


 1975

Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.

Number of People : 10,962


 1974

Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.

Number of People : 3,156


 1974

Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
       Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937

Number of People : 16,276


 1973

[Mary Garden]
Opera News, Nov, 1973, p. 14

Number of People : 1


 1970

Honneger, Marc
Dictionnaire de la musique
Publie sous la direction de Marc Honneger
Paris: Bordas, 1970-76

Number of People : 6,183


 1969

Merlin, Olivier
Le chant des sirenes (le bel canto)
Julliard, 1969, 351 p.

Number of People : 32


 1968 Source: 4

Index to music necrology : 1967 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1968, p. 681

Number of People : 117


 1967

Sheean, Vincent
Mary Garden : 20 February 1874-3 January 1967
Opera News, 31/15, 1967, p. 6-7

Number of People : 1


 1967

[Mary Garden - obituary]
Opera News, Feb 4, 1967, p. 6

Number of People : 1


 1967

Pleasants, Henry
The great singers : From Jenny Lind to Callas and Pavarotti
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967, 395 p.

Number of People : 64


 1966

Pleasants, Henry
The Great Opera Singers from the Dawn of Opera to our Own Time
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 [London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967]. 352 p.
       147 illus., bib

Number of People : 60


 1965

Zenei lexikon
Budapest: Zenemukiado Vallalat, 1965

Number of People : 4,351


 1964

Richards, John B.
Vegeto, Raffaele
Celletti, Rodolfo
Le grandi voci; dizionario critico; biografico dei cantanti con discografia operistica
Consulenti per le discografie: Raffaele Vegeto, John B. Richards
Direttore: Rodolfo Celletti
Roma: Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale, 1964, 1044 p.

Number of People : 305


 1964

Thomas, John Charles
Armitage, Merle
Accents on Life.
Foreword by John Charles Thomas
Ames: The Iowa State University Press, 1964. xv, 386 p.
       24 p. plates, 53 illus.
       Note: Memoirs of a talented impresario

Number of People : 7


 1962

Gibbon, Margot
Memories of Garden.
The Music Magazin Musical Courier. 164 (1962) H. 1, S. 56-57.

Number of People : 1


 1962

Les artistes du chant

p. 381 In:
Wolff, Stephane
L'opera au Palais Garnier (1875-1962)
Les oeuvres, les interpretes ...
Paris: L'Entr'acte, 1962, 565 p.

Number of People : 948


 1962

Townend, P.
Who's who in music and musicians' international directory 1962
New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, 331 p.

Number of People : 3,194


 1961

Reuter, Florizel von
Great People I have Known.
Waukesha: Freeman Printing Co., 1961 231 p.
       69 illus.

Number of People : 11


 1959

[Mary Garden]
Opera News, Dec 12, 1959, p. 8

Number of People : 1


 1957

Ewen, David
Living musicians : first supplement
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1957, 178 p.

Number of People : 456


 1957

Downes, Irene (editor)
Olin Downes on Music
A Selection of his Writings during the Half Century 1906-1955
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. xxxi, 473 p.
       Note: Includes evaluations of nine singers by a very powerful critic

Number of People : 9


 1956

Sheean, Vincent
First and Last Love
New York: Random Hause, 1956.305 p.
       Index.
       Note: An autobiography wlth penetrating observations

Number of People : 5


 1955

Davidson, Gladys
Opera biographies
London: Werner Laurie, 1955

Number of People : 119


 1954

[Mary Garden]
Opera News, Apr 5, 1954, p. 12

Number of People : 1


 1954

Weerth, Ernest de
Why We should Listen to Mary Garden
Opera News, 18/22, 1954, p. 12-14

Number of People : 1


 1954

Pena, Joaquin
Angles, Higinio
Querol Gavalda, Miguel
Diccionario de la musica labor
Iniciado por Joaquin Pena
Continuado por Higinio Angles
Con la colaboracion de Miguel Querol y otros distinguidos musicologos espanoles y extranjeros
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1954, 2V, 2318P.

Number of People : 7,942


 1953

Ulrich, Homer
Famous Women Singers
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. 127 p.
       15 illus., index.

Number of People : 15


 1951

Garden, Mary
Biancolli, Louis
Mary Garden's story.
With And Louis Biancolli.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951, 302 p.

Number of People : 1


 1951 Source: 8

Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sundstrom, Einar
Sohlman's musiklexikon : nordiskt och allmant upplagsverk for tonkonst, musikliv och dans
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl Allan Moberg [och] Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, [1951-]

Number of People : 8,662


 1951

Garden, Mary
Louis, Biancolli
Marr Garden's story
London: Joseph (1951). 276 S.

Number of People : 1


 1950

Carre, Albert
Souvenirs de Theatre
Paris: Libraire Plon, 1950. v, 429 p.
       8 p. plates, 22 illus.

Number of People : 2


 1947

Bauer, Roberto
The new catalogue of historical records 1898-1908/09
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1947, 494 p.

Number of People : 1,232


 1944

Armitage, Merle
Accents on America
New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.404 p. 26
       illustr.

Number of People : 4


 1943

Taubman, Howard
Music on My Beat : an Intimate Volume of Shop Talk
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. viii, 267 p.

Number of People : 12


 1941 Source: 13

Barone, J.
Who is who in music
1941 edition
Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1941

Number of People : 3,908


 1941

Aldrigh, Richard
Concert Life in New York 1902-1923
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941

Number of People : 1,464


 1941

Bio-bibliographical index of musicians in the United States of America since colonial times
Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration
Washington, DC: 1941, 439 p.

Number of People : 10,576


 1940

Baker, Theodore
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
Fourth edition revised and enlarged
New York: G. Schirmer, 1940

Number of People : 6,835


 1940

Wagner, Charles Ludwig
Seeing Stars
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940.
      Reprint:
1977. ix, 403 p.
       11 illus., index.

Number of People : 6

Descriptive note


 1939 Source: 12

Vital data (1906-1939)

p. 213 In:
Celebrities in El Dorado 1850-1906.
A biographic record of 111 prominent musicians who have visited San Francisco and performed there ...
With additional lists of visiting celebrities ...
San Francisco: Work Projects Administration, 1939, 270 p.
      (Series: History of Music in San Francisco Series; Volume four)

Number of People : 327


 1937

Schmidl, Carlo
Dizionario universale dei musicisti
Milan: Sonzogno, 1937, 2V p.

Number of People : 11,317


 1937

Thompson, Oscar
The American singer
A hundred years of success in opera
New York: Dial Press, Inc., 1937

Number of People : 188


 1936 Source: 6

Frank, Paul
Altmann, Wilhelm
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon : fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik
Begrundet von Paul Frank
Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann
Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.

Number of People : 17,230


 1936

Sheean, Vincent
Oscar Hammerstein I
The life and Exploits of an Impresario
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. xx, 363 p.
       17 illus., Index.

Number of People : 11

Descriptive note


 1933

Hansl, Eva Elise (Vom Baur)
Kauffmann, Helen Loeb
Artists in Music Today
New York: Grosset & Dunlop Publishers, 1933.111 p.
       50 full page drawings by Louis Lupas

Number of People : 20


 1931

Key, Pierre V.R.
Pierre Key's musical who's who
A biographical survey of contemporary musicians
Edited by Pierre V.R. Key; editor Musical Digest and ...
New York: Pierre Key, 1931, 498 p.

Number of People : 3,336

More Details : (1 Section)


 1929

Spaeth, Sigmund
Who is who in music
Chicago: Who is Who in Music, Inc., 1929

Number of People : 2,425


 1929 Source: 10

Muller, Erich H.
Deutsches Musiker-Lexikon
Herausgegeben von Erich H. Muller
Dresden: Wilhelm Limpert, 1929, 1644 p.

Number of People : 7,599


 1927 Source: 7

Norlind, Tobias
Allmant musiklexikon
Stockholm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1927-28, 2V p.

Number of People : 4,739


 1926

Finck, Henry Theophilus
My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1926.
      Reprint:
1971. xvi, 462 p.
       31 illus.
       Note: Autobiography of the New York Evening Post critic. Very brief evaluations of twenty-five singers

Number of People : 25


 1925

Walkins, Mary Fitch
Behind the Scenes at the Opera : Intimate Revelations of Back-Stage Musical Life and Work
New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1925. vii, 328 p.

Number of People : 11

Descriptive note


 1924

Wagnalls, Mabel
Opera and its Stars
A Description of the Music and Stories of the Enduring Operas and a Series of Interviews with the World's Famous Sopranos
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1924. xiv, 410 p.
       24 illus.

Number of People : 11


 1922

Parker, Henry Taylor
Eighth notes : voices and figures of music and the dance
1922, 238 p.

Number of People : 47


 1922

Armstrong, William
The romantic world of music
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1922

Number of People : 18


 1922

Lahee, Henry C.
The Grand Opera Singers of Today
An Account of the Leading Operatic Stars Who have Sung During Recent Years, Together with a Sketch of the Chief Operatic Enterprises. New revised edition
Boston: The Page Company Publishers, 1922 [1st edition 1912]. x, 543 p.
       48 illus., index.

Number of People : 19


 1922

Who's who in filmland ...
New York: 1922

Number of People : 14


 1921

Cooke, James Francis
Great singers on the art of singing
Educational conferences with foremost artists
Philadelphia: Theo. Presser, 1921

Number of People : 27


 1920

Vechten, Carl van
Interpreters
A new edition, revised, with sixteen illustrations and an epilogue
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1920, 201 p.

Number of People : 7


 1920

Boyd, Charles N.
Pratt, Waldo Selden
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. American supplement ...
Edited by Waldo S. Pratt. Associate editor: Charles N. Boyd.
New York: 1920

Number of People : 1,335


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