Filippo Traetta, Venetian musician, singer, and composer, founds the nation's first conservatory of music in Boston. Elisa Biscaccianti is born in Boston's North End . Pietro Bacchi, a Sicilian scholar, is appointed Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard College. Count Lorenzo Papanti establishes Boston's first dancing studio, a fixture of Boston's social life for the next three-quarters of a century. All rights reserved.
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