Giacinto Marras (1810 at

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— 1883) was a singer and musical composer. He studied music in Naples; came to England, 1835; sang at, and gave, concerts with

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, and others; visited Russia, 1842, and

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and Naples later; was in Paris, 1844; settled in England, 1846; published songs and other works; sang in public; Institut d'après-midis musicales at his own house; visited

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, 1870–3, and the

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, 1879; immense repertoire of

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, opera, and chamber music; as composer belongs to Italian school; published also ''Lezioni di Canto'' and ''Elementi Vocali'' 1850, valuable treatises on singing.

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