Eliza Mazzucato Young Explained

Eliza Mazzucato Young
Birth Name:Elisa Mazzucato
Birth Date:July 7, 1846
Birth Place:Milan
Death Date:March 27, 1937
Death Place:Beverly Hills, California
Nationality:Italian, American
Other Names:Elisa M. Young
Occupation:composer

Eliza Mazzucato Young (July 7, 1846 – March 27, 1937) was an Italian-born American composer, musician, and educator. She wrote Mr. Sampson of Omaha (1888), one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States.

Early life

Elisa Mazzucato was born in Milan, the daughter of opera composer Alberto Mazzucato and Teresa Bolza, a daughter of Count, Austrian police commissioner in Milan.[1] [2]

Her father was the director of the conservatory at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She studied music with her father, and in London.[1] [3] [4]

Career

Eliza Mazzucato taught at the National Training School of Music in London, before it closed in 1882, and then at the Royal College of Music.[5] She resigned in 1883 when she married one of the students, an American baritone named Bicknell Young. The couple moved to Salt Lake City in 1885, to open a music school, and they performed together in New York City in 1886. By 1895, they were living in Chicago, performing, touring, and teaching at the Chicago Conservatory.[6] [7] [8]

Young composed the music for the comic opera Mr. Sampson of Omaha (1888),[9] one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States; the libretto was by Fred Nye.[10] Sheet music for songs from the opera continued to be published for years after its debut.[11] Other compositions by Young included a one-act opera, The Maiden and the Reaper, and short works for voice, including a song in French, "Le Roi Don Juan", and a setting of Psalm 130.[12] She also wrote pedagogical pieces, such as "Staccato Étude in B".[13] [14]

Personal life

Eliza Mazzucato married fellow musician Brigham Bicknell Young (1856-1938),[15] a son of Joseph Young and a nephew of Brigham Young, in London in 1883.[16] They had three sons, Arrigo Mazzucato Young (1884-1954, born in England),[17] Hilgard Bicknell Young (1885-1979, born in Utah), and Umberto Young (1887-1965, born in Utah). Despite her husband's family connections in the Mormon community, the couple were adherents to Christian Science from the 1890s.[18] Eliza Mazzucato Young died in Beverly Hills, California in 1937, aged 90 years.[19] [20]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Tullidge, Edward William. History of Salt Lake City. 1886. Salt Lake City . Star Printing Company. 782–783.
  2. Book: Rutherford . Susan . Verdi, Opera, Women . 2013 . Cambridge University Press . 9781107043824 . 30, 51.
  3. Book: Young Folks Library: Music and drama. 1911. 200–201. en.
  4. Book: McVicker, Mary F.. Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. 2016-08-03. McFarland. 9780786495139. 71. en.
  5. News: The Art Divine. February 26, 1885. The Ogden Standard. July 25, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  6. News: Handel Hall Concerts. December 29, 1895. Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2019. 30. Newspapers.com.
  7. News: In an Opening Song Recital. December 1, 1897. Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  8. November 1892. Chicago Conservatory advertisement. Music. 3.
  9. Web site: Mr. Sampson of Omaha. Opening Night! Opera and Oratorio Premieres, Stanford University. 2019-07-25.
  10. Book: Kirk, Elise Kuhl. American Opera. registration. Eliza Mazzucato Young.. 2001. University of Illinois Press. 9780252026232. 110. en.
  11. Web site: A Bulgarian Pin. The Lester S. Levy Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University. 2019-07-25.
  12. News: Numbers by Resident Composers. November 30, 1896. Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  13. January 1897. Editorial Bric-a-brac. Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music. 11. 282.
  14. November 1896. Reviews and Notices. Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic. 11. 108. Mathews. William Smythe Babcock.
  15. Hughes. Rupert. April 1898. American Concert Singers, Part V. Godey's Magazine. 136. 407.
  16. Web site: Bicknell Young C.S.B.. Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute. 2019-07-25. 2019-07-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20190725230743/https://mbeinstitute.org/author/young-bicknell/bicknell-young.html. dead.
  17. Web site: Arrigo Mazzucato Young. Pacific Coast Architecture Database. 2019-07-25.
  18. Book: Eddy, Mary Baker. Church Manual of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Eliza Mazzucato Young.. 1895. Christian Science Publishing Society. 72. en.
  19. News: Elisa Mazzucato Young. March 29, 1937. Los Angeles Times. July 25, 2019. 20. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: Elisa Mazzucato Young is Dead in California. March 30, 1937. Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2019. 12. Newspapers.com.

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