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Albert Anthony Visetti (13 May 1846–10 July 1928) was a musician who moved to London where he was Professor of Singing at the Royal College of Music, becoming a Fellow in 1921. He was the stepfather of the novelist Radclyffe Hall.
Visetti became one of the leading professors of singing in the country, teaching singing at the Guildhall School of Music where his students included Bruce Carey; the London Academy of Music, at Watford School and the Royal College of Music, where his students included Clara Butt, Maurice Leonard, Hope and Glory: A Life of Dame Clara Butt, Victorian Secrets Limited (2012) - Google Books p32 Denise Orme, Gwynn Parry Jones, Louise Kirkby Lunn, Phyllis Lett and Agnes Nicholls. Visetti was musical adviser to the soprano Adelina Patti for five years, and wrote the popular song La Diva for her. He was Director and Conductor of the Philharmonic Society of Bath from 1878 to 1890 and for whom he wrote two , The Desert and The Praise of Song. In 1880 Umberto I the King of Italy conferred on him the Order of the Crown of Italy for his literary achievements. He wrote and translated several books including a life of Giovanni Palestrina and wrote a biography of Giuseppe Verdi for the Bells Miniature Series of Musicians (1905). In 1921 Visetti was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.Clarke, John M., London's Necropolis: A Guide to Brookwood Cemetery, Sutton Publishing (2004), p. 216
He died in London in 1928 and is buried with his wife Marie in the Catholic Section of Brookwood Cemetery.
Personal life
By marriage he became the stepfather of the novelist Radclyffe Hall in 1889; he had a tempestuous relationship with her mother Marie (née Sager) because of his affairs with his female students and Radclyffe Hall, who hated him, claimed he made sexual advances to her when she was a teenager. Laura Seddon, British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century, Routledge (2013) - Google Books p158 Radclyffe Hall Biography - Your Dictionary
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Categories: 1846 Births, 1928 Deaths, Dalmatian Italians, Italian Austro-hungarians, Composers From Austria-hungary, Immigrants To The United Kingdom, Milan Conservatory Alumni, Academics Of The Guildhall School Of Music And Drama, Academics Of The Royal College Of Music, Italian Opera Composers, Italian Male Opera Composers, Italian Classical Composers, 19th-century Italian Conductors, Italian Male Conductors, Burials At Brookwood Cemetery
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