page_title: Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi 1841 Love Poem
context_page_description: Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi was an Italian composer, critic, and teacher of music.
context_section_description: Biaggi was a pupil of Nicola Vaccaj and Alessandro Rolla, studying composition and violin at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini from 1829 to 1839.
  Biaggi founded L'Italia musicale, a weekly magazine published by the publisher Lucca in 1847, which he edited until 1848.  After taking part in the Five Days of Milan, he was appointed a secretary of the provisional government of Milan, after the Salasco armistice, he left Italy for Paris. After his return to Italy in 1860, he contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines including La Nazione and Nova Antologia. He wrote for the Gazette d'Italia under the pen name d'Ippolito d'Albano.
  Biaggi espoused on conservative positions as a music critic, and became a professor of musical aesthetics and history of music
  Biaggi composed and wrote the verses for two lyrical works, and he wrote a requiem and some chamber arias.
caption: 1841 poem by Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
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