Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi (February 2, 1819 – March 21, 1897) was an Italian composer, critic, and teacher of music.
Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
- Name
- Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
- Born
- 2 February 1819
- Birthplace
- Calcio
- Died
- 21 March 1897
- Place of death
- Florence
- Occupation
- composer, critic, teacher
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi (February 2, 1819 – March 21, 1897) was an Italian composer, critic, and teacher of music.
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Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi (1819–1897) was a composer, musicologist and teacher, of Italian nationality. The composer was born in Calcio and died in Florence. Languages used include Italian.
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• Name — Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi • Born — 2 February 1819 • Birthplace — Calcio • Died — 21 March 1897 • Place of death — Florence • Occupation — composer, critic, teacher
Biography
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Biaggi was a pupil of Nicola Vaccaj and Alessandro Rolla, studying composition and violin at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini from 1829 to 1839. Biaggi founded L'Italia musicale, a weekly magazine published by the publisher Lucca in 1847, which he edited until 1848. After taking part in the Five Days of Milan, he was appointed a secretary of the provisional government of Milan, after the Salasco armistice, he left Italy for Paris. After his return to Italy in 1860, he contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines including La Nazione and Nova Antologia. He wrote for the Gazette d'Italia under the pen name d'Ippolito d'Albano. Biaggi espoused on conservative positions as a music critic, and became a professor of musical aesthetics and history of music • Illustration — 1841 poem by Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi Biaggi composed and wrote the verses for two lyrical works, and he wrote a requiem and some chamber arias.
Lyrical works
Lyrical works
• Don Desiderio disperato per eccesso di buon cuore (1839) • Martino della Scala (1856)
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Calcio.
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• Della musica religiosa e delle questioni inerenti (1856) • Istradamento pratico alla lettura della musica (1861)
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- 1.Carlo Frajese. BIAGGI, Girolamo Alessandro. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. 9. 1967.
- 2.Sergio Lattes. Biaggi, Girolamo Alessandro. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. 2001. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03010.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Enciclopèdia Espasa Volum núm. 8, pàg. 445 ( )
- Theodore Baker and Nicolas Slonimsky Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, p. 413
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