Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi
Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi (February 2, 1819 – March 21, 1897) was an Italian composer, critic, and teacher of music. Biography. 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.