Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Giovanni Battista Lamperti (Milan, June 24, 1839 - Berlin, March 18, 1910) was an Italian singing teacher.

Lamperti was the son of Francesco Lamperti who was also a voice teacher. At the age of nine he became a chorister in the cathedral of Milan. He studied voice and piano at the Milan Conservatory and later was accompanist for Francesco Lamperti's singing class there. He taught in Milan and then for 20 years in Dresden followed by Berlin. During the 1890s in Dresden, one of his students, William Earl Brown, wrote down the maxims of his singing-master. His other voice students included Marcella Sembrich, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Paul Bulss, and Roberto Stagno.

Publications

• Die Technik des Bel Canto. English translation by Theodore Baker, New York: 1905.
• Scuola di Canto. (8 volumes of solfeggi and vocalises)
• William Earl Brown. Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti. Edited by Lillian Strongin. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1931.

References

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, (Nicolas Slonimsky, Ed.) New York: G. Schirmer, 1958