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.
Eliza Mazzucato Young | |
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 Eliza Mazzucato Young, from an 1894 publication. | |
| Born | Elisa Mazzucato July 7, 1846 Milan |
| Died | March 27, 1937 Beverly Hills, California |
| Nationality | Italian, American |
| Other names | Elisa M. Young |
| Occupation | composer |
Early life
editElisa Mazzucato was born in Milan, the daughter of opera composer Alberto Mazzucato and Teresa Bolza, a daughter of Count Luigi Bolza, 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
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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,[5] 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][10] one of the first operas by a woman to be produced in the United States; the libretto was by Fred Nye.[11] Sheet music for songs from the opera continued to be published for years after its debut.[12] 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",[3] and a setting of Psalm 130.[13] She also wrote pedagogical pieces, such as "Staccato Étude in B".[14][15]
Personal life
editEliza Mazzucato married fellow musician Brigham Bicknell Young (1856-1938),[16] a son of Joseph Young and a nephew of Brigham Young, in London in 1883.[17] They had three sons, Arrigo Mazzucato Young (1884-1954, born in England),[18] 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.[19] Eliza Mazzucato Young died in Beverly Hills, California in 1937, aged 90 years.[20][21]
References
edit- ^ a b Tullidge, Edward William (1886). History of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: Star Printing Company. pp. 782–783.
- ^ Rutherford, Susan (2013). Verdi, Opera, Women. Cambridge University Press. pp. 30, 51. ISBN 9781107043824.
- ^ a b Young Folks Library: Music and drama. 1911. pp. 200–201.
- ^ McVicker, Mary F. (2016-08-03). Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century. McFarland. p. 71. ISBN 9780786495139.
- ^ a b "The Art Divine". The Ogden Standard. February 26, 1885. p. 3. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Handel Hall Concerts". Chicago Tribune. December 29, 1895. p. 30. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "In an Opening Song Recital". Chicago Tribune. December 1, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chicago Conservatory advertisement". Music. 3. November 1892.
- ^ "Mr. Sampson", It's Showtime! Sheet Music from Stage and Screen, retrieved 2019-07-25
- ^ "Mr. Sampson of Omaha". Opening Night! Opera and Oratorio Premieres, Stanford University. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ Kirk, Elise Kuhl (2001). American Opera. University of Illinois Press. pp. 110. ISBN 9780252026232.
Eliza Mazzucato Young.
- ^ "A Bulgarian Pin". The Lester S. Levy Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "Numbers by Resident Composers". Chicago Tribune. November 30, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Editorial Bric-a-brac". Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music. 11: 282. January 1897.
- ^ Mathews, William Smythe Babcock (November 1896). "Reviews and Notices". Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic. 11: 108.
- ^ Hughes, Rupert (April 1898). "American Concert Singers, Part V". Godey's Magazine. 136: 407.
- ^ "Bicknell Young C.S.B." Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute. Archived from the original on 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "Arrigo Mazzucato Young". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ Eddy, Mary Baker (1895). Church Manual of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Christian Science Publishing Society. pp. 72.
Eliza Mazzucato Young.
- ^ "Elisa Mazzucato Young". Los Angeles Times. March 29, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Elisa Mazzucato Young is Dead in California". Chicago Tribune. March 30, 1937. p. 12. Retrieved July 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
edit- An image of Eliza Mazzucato Young, from the Utah State Historical Society.
- Libretto of Mr. Sampson of Omaha on Internet Archive