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PAULINE VIARDOT – A Chronology<br />
1821 Birth in Paris of Pauline García, 18 July, youngest child of Manuel<br />
García (1775-1832) and his second wife, Joaquina García (1780-1854).<br />
1825 García family go to America, and in New York give the first US<br />
performances of operas by Rossini and Mozart, including Don<br />
Giovanni. Meeting with Lorenzo Da Ponte. Pauline’s older sister,<br />
Maria García, meets and marries Eugène Malibran.<br />
1832 Begins piano studies with Liszt.<br />
1834 Appears as pianist in concerts with her sister Maria and Charles de<br />
Bériot.<br />
1836 Death of Maria Malibran.<br />
1839 Pauline García’s stage debut, as Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello<br />
(Her Majesty’s, London); Paris debut (Odéon).<br />
1840 Marriage to Louis Viardot.<br />
1841 Vienna debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia.<br />
1843 St Petersburg debut; first meeting with Turgenev.<br />
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