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Joseph Caillot, engraving by Simon Charles Miger (c. 1770).

Joseph Caillot (24 January 1733, in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris – 30 September 1816, in Paris) was a French actor and singer. [1]

He was endowed with a very wide compass which enabled him to sing as a basse taille ( bass-baritone), while also reaching the haute-contre tones. [2] According to Rodolfo Celletti "he was a baritenor and a bass at the same time": Grétry and Monsigny used to notate his parts in the bass clef, but set them in high- baritone tessiture. [3]

References

  1. ^ Mason, Daniel Gregory (1917). The Art of Music: A dictionary-index of musicians. New York: National Society of Music. pp.  74.
  2. ^ Jean Gourret, Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, Les publications universitaires, 1978, p. 43.
  3. ^ Voce di tenore, Milan, Idealibri, 1989, p. 59, ISBN  88-7082-127-7

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