A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Alizard, Adolphe

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

ALIZARD, Adolphe Joseph Louis, born in Paris, 1814; a bass singer of some eminence; began his musical career as a pupil of Urhan on the violin; but his master accidentally discovering that he had a remarkably fine voice, persuaded him to abandon his instrument, and to enter the Conservatoire as a pupil of Banderali. His voice was naturally a deep bass, but finding that after singing at the opera in Paris for five years he was still employed in secondary parts, he entered upon a diligent course of practice, by which he gained several notes in the upper register, and was able to take baritone parts. The strain upon his chest however was too great to be maintained without injury, and after several attacks, he died of consumption at Marseilles at the age of thirty-six.

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