Adelina Murio-Celli d'Elpeux (1844, Breslau - April 10, 1900,

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) was a Polish

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, music teacher and

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Biography

Murio-Celli was born in Breslau of Franco-Russian parents, and went to Paris with them when she was two years old. When Murio-Celli was 15 years old, she won a prize for singing at the

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. Arditi then took her on operatic tours, and she sang in Italy, Spain, France, Austria, and Turkey, under his management. Murio-Celli went to Mexico, and was the

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during the reign of

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. After his execution, Murio-Celli moved to

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. Murio-Celli had many famous pupils: Marie Engle,

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, Minnie Dilthey,

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, Marie Groebl, Anna Russell, Jennie Dickerson, Ida Klein, Amanda Fabris,

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, Sallie Reber, Dorothy Morton. Alice M. Whitacre, Sophie Neuberger, Kate Von Arnheim. Pauline Maurel, Helen Bertram, Helen Parepa, Ada Gleason, Rozella Einstein, Cora Cahn, Lena Jones, Rose Gumper, Elfrida Neuberger, Mabel Van Kirk,

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, Marguerite Lemon, E. L. D. Ronan. Cora Bedell. Helen Marie Howe. Mildred Mead, Alice Thurlow, Beatrice Roderick, Emma Ames Dambmann, Ada M. Austen, Eleanore Broadfoot, Charlotte Steele, Mrs. August William Hoffmann and the Misses Demmer, Roderick. Genoris, Harkness, Head, Detmar, Hyde, Hoffman and Nemerca. Murio-Celli's compositions included "Il Sogno" (a

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song), "Mid Starry Deeps of Splendor", the "Soldier’s Bride", and "In-cantatrice", a vocal theme and variations written expressly for

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