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De Reszke (EDOUARD a Polish opera singer)

EDOUARD, a Polish opera singer, born in 1855 at Warsaw.

In the early years of his life he studied scientific agriculture and for some time took care of the family estates in Silesia.

About 1875 at the suggestion of his older brother he studied voice culture under the eminent masters of his day, and in 1876 made his début in Paris as a basso. During the last decade of the 19th century he was one of the most popular singers in the operas given in New York and London. He died in 1917.