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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 Maria Cooke
(1819-1894)
Parents Mauro Bagioli, father
Mother unknown
Children Teresa Bagioli Sickles
(1836-1867)

Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli (or just Antonio Bagioli)[1] (1795-1871) of Bologna, Italy and New York City, New York was a successful music teacher and author, and the father of Teresa Bagioli Sickles, wife of Dan Sickles, central figures in a notorious murder trial in 1859.

He is sometimes confused with Antonio Bagioli (1783-1855) (son of Luigi) who was possibly a cousin.[2]

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[edit] Early years

Giuseppe Antonio Bagioli was born in Bologna, Italy, the son of Mauro Bagioli, on November 17, 1795. His father's family was from Bologna and his mother's family was from the nearby town of Cesena. He studied in Bologna, and then entered the conservatory of Naples where he studied for several years under Zingarelli.[3] 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.

[edit] In America

In 1832 Bagioli was appointed "gran maestro" (or conductor, or musical director) of the Italian opera company of Giacomo Montresor, a French tenor[4]. This company was the first (or second[5]) Italian opera company to ever visit the United States, and traveled to New York with the company[3]. There, Bagioli called on Lorenzo Da Ponte, the noted music teacher, who had worked as Mozart's librettist on such masterpieces as The Marriage of Figaro, and who 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.[6] There Bagioli met Maria (or Eliza)[7]Cooke (1819-1894)[8][9] . who was the adopted and alleged "natural"[10] child of Lorenzo Da Ponte, who would have been about 70 when he fathered her. Maria was from Croton Falls, in Westchester County, New York[6].

After a critically successful (but perhaps not financially successful[11] season the opera troupe went to Havana, Cuba, but Bagioli stayed in New York City, having apparently fallen in love with Maria, then still an adolescent and Da Ponte's ward. While courting Maria Cooke, Bagioli composed the score for Da Ponte's Hymn to America, with which he would later always open and close concerts[6]. Sources place their marriage at about 1834.[12] At about this time, Baglioli moved into the Da Ponte household and began to establish himself as a voice instructor. Their daughter, Teresa was born in 1836, when Maria was 17. During the rest of the 1830s, Bagioli's popularity and influence as a conductor and composer, as well as a voice instructor, was on the increase. His American students became well known performers, and Bagioli has been credited with spreading the popularity of Italian song and opera throughout America. He continued to work as an orchestral conductor as well[6].

In 1839 the Da Ponte household grew larger by the addition of one Daniel Sickles(b 1819), a future Union general, who, at the behest of his parents George Garret Sickles and Susan Marsh Sickles[13], (who felt him to be " sufficiently unsettled and in need of special tutoring"[6]), and owing in part to his friendship with Lorenzo the Younger a New York University professor, moved in to the house on Spring Street, ostensibly to study foreign languages. While boarding, Sickles made the acquaintance of Maria, the same age as he, and her daughter Teresa, who was 3 at the time. Later, as Sickles rose in prominence, rumours persistently circulated that Sickles had seduced Maria Cooke Bagioli[6]. Whether that was true or not, Sickles did become friends with the family as part of his boarding experience., and was involved in the upbringing of Teresa, although he left after about a year when his mentor suddenly died, but maintained close ties with the family, possibly to continue the study of French and Italian.[14]


Though Sickles had known Teresa since her infancy, he made her acquaintance again in 1851, this time as an Assemblyman (and part of the Tammany Hall Democratic machine). He was thirty-three years old, she was fifteen.

Sickles, a notorious womanizer, was quite taken with Teresa and soon proposed marriage. Despite his prominence and long connection to the family, the Bagiolis refused to consent to the marriage. Undeterred, the couple wed in 1853 in a civil ceremony. Teresa's family then relented and the couple married again, this time with John Hughes, Catholic Archbishop of New York City, presiding. Some seven months later, in 1853, their only child, Laura Buchanan Sickles, was born.[15][16][17]


George Garret Sickles and Susan Marsh Sickles,

to be that they arranged for him to live in the scholarly house of the Da Ponte family on Spring Street, New York

American Standard, a work composed by Bagioli, published in 1864
American Standard, a work composed by Bagioli, published in 1864

[edit] Death

Bagioli died in New York City on February 11, 1871.

Unfortunately of its compositions us it remains, conserved near the Library Malatestiana di Cesena, solo the incomplete partitura ofthe work the misunderstanding.

[edit] References

  1. ^ sources differ, but most US sources omit the Giuseppe
  2. ^ this assertion is from the Italian Wikipedia article: Antonio_Bagioli_(1795-1871)
  3. ^ a b James Grant Wilson, John Fiske. Bagioli article. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. Retrieved on January 20, 2007. (from Google Books)
  4. ^ From: Joan Acocella (2007-01-08). NIGHTS AT THE OPERA - The life of the man who put words to Mozart. New Yorker Magazine website. Retrieved on January 21, 2007., a review of books about Da Ponte
  5. ^ Sources differ, Appleton's Cyclopædia has it as the first, while the New Yorker article says there was an earlier one headed by Manuel Garcia in 1825
  6. ^ a b c d e f Thomas Keneally. American Scoundrel - The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Excerpt from Random House site, also available at Powells and elsewhere. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  7. ^ sources differ but Maria is predominant, see American Scoundrel for example
  8. ^ Cheri Clark. Eliza Cook page. Rootsweb Ancestors of Royce Brent Clark and Jessie Lamm. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  9. ^ "fido". Maria Cook page. Rootsweb Just A Fun Project ! 1st Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  10. ^ A 19th century term for illegitimate
  11. ^ the New Yorker article said: Whatever its artistic success, the Montresor season was a disaster financially.
  12. ^ Cheri Clark. Antonio Bagioli page. Rootsweb Ancestors of Royce Brent Clark and Jessie Lamm. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  13. ^ Cheri Clark. Daniel Edgar Sickles page. Rootsweb Ancestors of Royce Brent Clark and Jessie Lamm. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  14. ^ from [United States government. [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/dsickles.htm arlingtoncemetary.net Daniel Edgar Sickles Major General, United States Army]. Arlington Cemetery National Website. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.]: "His ambition to fit himself for the diplomatic service had led him to take up the study of French and Italian, and in this way he met Therese Bagioli, daughter of an Italian music teacher." (other sources say he knew her since infancy)
  15. ^ From: Assumption.edu
  16. ^ Cheri Clark. Laura Buchanan Sickles page. Rootsweb Ancestors of Royce Brent Clark and Jessie Lamm. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
  17. ^ note that James Buchanan, later 15th president of the United States, was "minister to the court of St James" or ambassador to Great Britain, from 1853 to 1856 and Daniel Sickles was Buchanan's secretary there until 1855.


Since later on it carried out its career far away from Cesena, its intense musical activity still is not known in native land. In 1832 he it was moved in the United States in order to assume direction of the first Company of Italian Work arrived in the country American. When later on the Company moved Cuba, the Bagioli remained to New York settling down itself here definitively.

It began to teach to music and song becoming to short the main master of the city. To he the merit be had must made to know them the Italian song.

It produced various jobs, beyond to numerous musical compositions. Study published(1864) one on the song. It had a daughter, Teresa Bagioli (1836-1867), that she was spouse to an important political man, general Daniel Edgar Sickles.

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from

http://famousamericans.net/antoniobagioli/

(which said it is somehow related to virtualology.com and cites

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and 1999.

text:

BAGIOLI, Antonio, musician, born in Bologna, Italy, in 1795 ; died in New York 11 February 1871. He began the study of music early in life, and, after a preparatory course in several schools, entered the conservatory at Naples, and remained there for several years under Zingarelli. In 1832 he arrived in New York as musical director of the Montresor troupe, the first Italian opera company that ever visited the United States. After a successful season the opera troupe went to Havana; but Bagioli remained in New York and established himself as a teacher of music, attaining a success probably unsurpassed by any professor in this country. He published "One Hour of Daily Study for the Acquirement of a Correct Pronunciation of the Vowels, which is the only Method to become a Perfect Vocalist" (New York. 1864).*His only daughter, Theresa, married General Daniel E. Sickles.



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