Piero Maroncelli

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Piero Maroncelli , also Pietro Maroncelli, (born September 21, 1795 in Forlì , † August 1, 1846 in New York ) was an Italian musician, writer and patriot during the Risorgimento .

Life

Piero's parents - the realtor Antonio Maroncelli and his wife Maria Iraldi Bonet (or Bonnet) - lived with their children in modest circumstances. Nevertheless, Piero's brother became a doctor and Piero, the third of five children, studied music from 1810 to 1813 in Naples at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella with Paisiello and Zingarelli . Piero's fellow students included Saverio Mercadante , Nicola Manfroce, Vincenzo Bellini and Luigi Lablache . From 1813 to 1815 Piero continued to occupy himself with music and literature in Naples, joined the Masonic lodge Colonna Armonica , left it and became Carbonaro .

After returning to Forlì, Piero attended the University of Bologna and was imprisoned for a long song he had written in Terzinen for the feast of Jacopo of Forlì from late July 1817 to August 1818, although he had initially escaped censorship. The father died on April 30, 1819. Maroncelli gave music lessons and wrote for the Milanese political paper Il Conciliatore .

In 1820 he staged musical antics for the successful Marchionni theater company in Milan. Maroncelli met Silvio Pellico at Marchionni . Piero and Silvio each fell in love with one of the actresses from the Marchionni family - Piero in Carlotta and Silvio in Teresa.

The Austrian police in Milan noticed how the two commoners Pellico and Maroncelli conspired against the Emperor of Austria together with the nobles Federico Confalonieri and Luigi Porro Lambertenghi . Maroncelli and Pellico were arrested in the fall of 1820 for incriminating letters. The emperor pardoned those sentenced to death on February 21, 1822. Maroncelli got twenty years in prison and Pellico got fifteen years. Both were serving their sentences together with Confalonieri at the Spielberg Fortress in Brno . On July 26, 1830, Maroncelli was allowed to leave the fortress as a mutilated. While in custody, his left leg above the knee had to be amputated because of cancer.

Maroncelli stayed in Paris until 1833. In 1833 he married the German opera singer Amalia Schneider in Paris and went to New York with his wife. While his wife performed there occasionally, Maroncelli gave music and Italian classes to students. In September 1835 their daughter Silvia was born in New York. Maroncelli's blindness began. He worked on the editorial board of the Fourierist magazine The Phalanx .

Piero Maroncelli died mentally deranged in New York and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery . In 1886 his remains were buried on the Cimitero monumentale di Forlì. Amalia probably died in Germany in 1895 and Silvia in Berlin in 1914.

literature

Web links

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annotation

  1. ↑ The article was written on the basis of Piero Maroncelli (Italian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ital. Jacopo da Forlì
  2. ^ Italian Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
  3. ↑ engl. Fourierism
  4. ↑ engl. The phalanx
  5. ↑ Ital. Cimitero monumentale di Forlì
  6. ^ Italian Roberto Balzani
  7. ^ Italian Albano Sorbelli
personal data
SURNAME Maroncelli, Piero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maroncelli, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician, writer and patriot during the Risorgimento
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Forlì
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1846
Place of death new York