Antonio Bagioli
| Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 17, 1795 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | February 11, 1871 New York City, New York |
| Occupation | music teacher, author, composer, conductor |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Cooke (1819-1894) |
| Children |
Teresa Bagioli Sickles (1836-1867) |
| Parent(s) | Mauro Bagioli, father Mother unknown |
Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli (or just Antonio Bagioli) (1795–1871) of Bologna, Italy and New York City, New York was a successful composer, music teacher and author. He was musical director by 1832 of the Italian opera company of Giacomo Montresor, a French tenor. It was one of the first opera companies to perform in New York City, and he decided to stay and work there. He married an American woman, Maria Cooke, in New York. He composed numerous works and was highly regarded as a teacher of voice.
Their daughter Teresa married Dan Sickles, a New York politician more than twice her age. He was later elected to Congress. They were central figures in a notorious murder trial after Sickles killed Teresa's lover in 1859 on the street in Washington, DC.
The composer was sometimes confused with Antonio Bagioli (1783–1855) (son of Luigi), a cousin.
Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Mauro Bagioli and of Puglioli Teresa (source:Anagrafe Napoleonica-Archivio di Stato, Cesena, Italy), on November 17, 1795. His mother's family was from Bologna and his father's family was from the nearby town of Cesena, where they had been established for generations. He studied in Bologna under Padre Mattei, and then entered the conservatory of Naples, where he studied for several years under Zingarelli. He composed melodramas that represented Cesena (1815), Naples (1824) and Bologna (1826 and others), leading to a certain fame in his native land of Italy.
In 1832 Bagioli was appointed "gran maestro" (or conductor, or musical director) of the Italian opera company of Giacomo Montresor, a French tenor. This company was the first (or second) Italian opera company to visit the United States, and Bagioli traveled to New York City with the company. There Bagioli called on Lorenzo Da Ponte, the noted music teacher. He had worked as Mozart's librettist on such works as The Marriage of Figaro, and held the chair of Italian Literature at Columbia College (later Columbia University). Da Ponte's son, also named Lorenzo, and sometimes called Lorenzo the Younger, was a professor at New York University. There Bagioli met Maria (or Eliza) Cooke (1819–1894). She was the adopted daughter of Lorenzo Da Ponte and said to have his "natural" child. (He would have been about 70 when he fathered her.) Maria was from Croton Falls, in Westchester County, New York.
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