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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBANI , the See also:

stage name of See also:MARIE See also:LOUISE EMMA CECILE I. 16LAJEUNESSE (t847— ), See also:Canadian See also:singer, who was See also:born at Chambly, in the See also:province of See also:Quebec, on the 27th of See also:September 1847. She made her first public See also:appearance in See also:Montreal, at the See also:age of seven, and afterwards studied in the See also:United States, See also:Paris and See also:Italy. In 187o she made her first appearance a tMessina, and after two successful seasons appeared in See also:London in 1872 with the Royal See also:Italian See also:Opera. Later she abandoned opera for See also:oratorio. and sang at all the See also:principal festivals. She has made several See also:tours of See also:Canada and of the United States, and in 1886 sang at the opening of the Colonial and See also:Indian See also:Exhibition in London the See also:ode written by See also:Tennyson for the occasion. She frequently sang before See also:Queen See also:Victoria, the See also:German See also:emperor and others of the crowned heads of See also:Europe, and received numerous marks of their esteem; In 1897 she was awarded the See also:gold See also:Beethoven See also:medal by the London Philharmonic Society, " as a See also:mark of appreciation of her exceptional See also:genius and musical attainments, and of her generous and See also:artistic nature." She married in 1878 Ernest Gye, the theatrical manager. Her stage name of Madame Albani was taken from that of an See also:extinct Italian See also:family. See See also:Morgan, Canadian Men and See also:Women of the See also:Time (1898).

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