Adelina Murio-Celli d‘Elpeux

Adelina Murio-Celli d‘Elpeux (1844, Wrocław - April 10, 1900, New York City) was a Polish music teacher and composer.

Murio-Celli was born in Breslau, of FrancoRussian parents, and went to Paris with them when she was two years old. When fifteen years old she won a prize in the Paris Conservatoire. Arditi then took her on operatic tours, and she sang in Italy, Spain, France, Austria, and Turkey, under his management. She went to Mexico, and was the prima donna in the City of Mexico in the time of Maximilian. After his execution she went to Havana, and then came to the United States, where she was the prima donna of the Grau Opera-Company. In 1870 she retired, and began teaching music in Chicago. There she married Ravin d'Elpeux, who was French consul in that city. In 1880 they moved to New York. MurioCelli had many famous pupils. She died April 10, 1900, at her home, New York, of pneumonia.^[1]

Among the many vocalists who studied with Murio-Celli were the following: Marie Engle, Emma Juch. Minnie Dilthey, Charlotte Walker, Marie Groebl, Anna Russell, Jennie Dickerson, Ida Klein, Amanda Fabris, Emma Abbott, 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, Nella Bergen, Marguerite L'emon, 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 Dcmmer, Roderick. Genoris, Harkncss, Head, Detmar, Hyde, Hoffman and Nemerca.^[2]

Her compositions included "Il Sogno" (a waltz song), “Mid Starry Deeps 0f Splendor", the "Soldier’s Bride", and “In-cantatrice", a vocal theme and variations written expressly for Adelina Patti.^[2]

References

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: Musical Courier (1900)
• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: Werner's Magazine: A Magazine of Expression (1900)

Bibliography

• Musical Courier (1900). Musical Courier (Public domain ed.). New York: Musical Courier. 
• Werner's Magazine Company (1900). Werner's Magazine: A Magazine of Expression (Public domain ed.). Werner's Magazine Company.