Madrid-born Spanish doctor and music teacher who invented the laryngoscope (1854), a piece of equipment to perform an indirect laryngoscopy, a technique used able to expose and visualize the structures of the larynx. Son of the famous Spanish singer and singing director, Manuel Garcia (1775-1832), and of Catalan Joaquina Siches Briones, he was also the brother of two more celebrated singers of his time, Maria Malibran (1808-1836) and Pauline Viardot (1821-1910). From the age of ten he accompanied his parents and successfully participated in shows as a singer, both in Europe and America.
Thus, due to an excess of presentations and the use of inadequate techniques, his artistic career was short-lived and he stopped singing (1829) to devote himself fully to the study of voice from an anatomical and physiological. He became professor of music in Paris (1830) and wrote Memoir on the Human Voice (1840). He published Traité complet de l’ art du chant, en deux parties (1847), an extraordinary success around the world and brought him international fame. He moved (1848) to London where he continued as a teacher and made constant visits to France.
Studying the vocal cords, he invented the laryngoscope (1854), a device with mirrors with which he performed the first indirect laryngoscopy in history. He published an important treatise on music, Nouveau TraitŽ sur l'Art du Chant (1856). In London he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music for nearly 50 years (1848-1898) .and he died in the English capital at the age of 101.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order M - Biography - Brazil School
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