Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli of Bologna, Italy and New York City, New York was a successful composer, music teacher and author.
12 Facts About Antonio Bagioli
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Antonio Bagioli was musical director by 1832 of the Italian opera company of Giacomo Montresor, a French tenor.
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Antonio Bagioli married an American woman, Maria Cooke, in New York.
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Antonio Bagioli composed numerous works and was highly regarded as a teacher of voice.
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Antonio Bagioli studied in Bologna under Padre Mattei, and then entered the conservatory of Naples, where he studied for several years under Zingarelli.
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Antonio Bagioli composed melodramas that represented Cesena, Naples and Bologna, leading to a certain fame in his native land of Italy.
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In 1832 Bagioli was appointed "gran maestro" of the Italian opera company of Giacomo Montresor, a French tenor.
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Antonio Bagioli had worked as Mozart's librettist on such works as The Marriage of Figaro and held the chair of Italian Literature at Columbia College.
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Antonio Bagioli was the adopted daughter of Lorenzo Da Ponte and said to have been his "natural" child.
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Antonio Bagioli stayed in New York City, having apparently fallen in love with Maria, then still an adolescent and Da Ponte's ward.
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Antonio Bagioli continued to work as an orchestral conductor as well.
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Antonio Bagioli died in New York City on February 11,1871.