2012 Reprint of 1900 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Marchesi was born in Frankfurt-am-Main. In her adolescence her family fortunes failed, so she travelled at the age of 22 to Vienna to study voice. Thereafter she went to Paris and studied with Manuel Garc a II, who was to have the foremost influence on her. She made her debut as a singer in 1844, and had a short career in opera...