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1French Opera and in French versions of Wagner. She sang "Salammbô" at the Opéra, 1908.
2Carpani (kär-pä'-nē), Giu. A., b. Vilalbese (Como), 1752—Vienna, 1825; writer.
3Car'penter, John Alden, b. Park Ridge, Ill., Feb. 28, 1876; composer; grad., Harvard Univ.; studied with Bernard Ziehn and Seeboeck; a prominent business executive in Chicago, he has made much more than an avocation of music, taking his place among the most accomplished American comps.; his musical idiom is modern and his output fairly large. C. (ballets) "The Birthday of the Infanta" (Chicago Op., 1919–20); "Krazy Kat"; "Skyscrapers" (Met. Op., 1926); the orch. works, "Adventures in a Perambulator"; symphony (Norfolk Fest., 1917); concertino with piano; "Sea Drift" (N. Y. Philh., 1935); also a string quartet (Coolidge Fest., Washington); violin sonata; "Water Colors" for mezzo-soprano and chamber orch.; "Improving Songs for Anxious Children"; and many songs incl. the cycle "Gitanjali."
4Carpentras (Il Carpentras'so). Vide ELEAZER GENET.
5Carré (kär-rā), (1) Louis, Clofontaine Brie, 1663—Paris, 1711; writer. (2) Albert, b. Strassburg, June 22, 1852; 1898–1912, dir. Op. Com., Paris; librettist; d. Paris, Dec. 12, 1938.
6Carreño (kär-rān'-yō), Teresa, Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 22, 1853—New York, June 13, 1917; pupil of L. M. Gottschalk, and G. Mathias; notable pianist; played in public at 12; at 22 toured the U. S.; 1889–90 toured Germany with much success; for some years wife of E. Sauret; then of Giov. Tagliapietra; 1892–95, wife of Eugen d'Albert; 1902, m. Arturo Tagliapietra, bro. of Giov. T.; c. a string-quartet and pf. salon pieces. Her daughter Teresita Tagliapietra, also a pianist.
7Carreras (kä-rä'-räs), Maria, b. Italy; pianist; at six awarded 1st prize at Acad. of Santa Cecilia, Rome, by Liszt, then hon. pres. of this school; studied with Sgambati, under whose baton at 15 she played his concerto with Rome Philh. with much succ.; immediately engaged for concerts in Russia with Imp. Music. Soc. under Safonoff; toured widely in Europe and South America; later in U. S., where she has been res. for some years and has given master classes.
8Carrillo (kär-ē'-yō), Julian, b. Mexico, 1875; composer who has embodied novel harmonic system in his orch., chamber music and choral works; also autho1 of "Synthetic Treatise of Harmony."
9Carro'dus, J. Tiplady, Keighley (Yorkshire), 1836—London, 1895; violinist.
10Car'ron, Arthur (rightly Cox), b. England; tenor; pupil of Florence Easton; sang with Old Vic. Op. Co., London; début, Met. Op. Co., summer popular season, 1936, as Canio; engaged for regular roster of company following unusual succ. in this rôle.
11Carse, Adam, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19, 1878; pupil R. A. M., with the Macfarren scholarship; made an associate there in 1902; c. symph. in C minor; symph. in G minor, symph. poem, "In a Balcony"; concert overture, etc.; writer on music.
12Car'ter, (1) Thos., Ireland, ca. 1735—London, 1804; composer. (2) Ernest Trow, b. Orange, N. J., 1866; organist, conductor, composer; studied New York and Berlin; org. of Amer. Ch. in latter city, and 1899–1901 at Princeton Univ.; c. comic op., "The Blonde Donna"; opera, "The White Bird" (Chicago, 1924; Osnabrück, Germany, 1927); pantomime, "Namba," etc.
13Cartier (kärt-yā), J. Bap., Avignon, 1765—Paris, 1841; violinist and dram. composer.
14Carulli (kä-rool'-lē), (1) Fdo., Naples, 1770—Paris, 1841; self-taught guitar-virtuoso and teacher; c. 400 concertos. (2) Gustavo, Leghorn, 1801—Bologna, 1876; son of above; teacher and dram. composer.
15Caruso (kä-roo'-zō), Luigi, Naples, 1754—Perugia, 1821; conductor, c. 69 operas. (2) Enrico, Naples, Feb. 25, 1873—Aug. 2, 1921; famous Italian tenor; pupil of Vergine; début, 1895, winning gradual success in Italy (Naples, 1898; 1899 La Scala), and creating the tenor rôles in Giordano's "Fedora," Cilea's "L'écouvreur," and Franchetti's "Germania"; 1899–1903 sang in St. Petersburg, and Buenos Aires; 1902, appeared with Melba at Monte Carlo, began his tremendous vogue;
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