Raffaele Abecco

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Raffaele Abecco (* 1836 in Italy - † January 3, 1879 in Chicago , Illinois , United States ) was an Italian harpist , singer (tenor) and composer .

He was known as a performer in many minstrel shows .

Life

Raffaele Abecco had two brothers, Antonio and Vinzenco, who played the harp like him. They performed together as the Italian Brothers . So they made guest appearances on December 6th and 7th, 1854 at Firemen 's Hall in Detroit. Later he was a member of various minstrel ensembles. From August 1857 he was with the Matt Peel's Campell's Minstrels on a tour of the east coast of the United States . In October 1857 they started in New Orleans . He stayed with Matt Peel until his death. In January 1859 he played with the Sniffen's Campell's Minstrels and from August 1860 with the Sanford's Minstrels in Philadelphia, who performed at the Sanford's Opera House . On October 1st and 5th, 1860, scenes from Il Trovatore were performed here. Abecco sang the role of Manrico. In February 1861 he gave concerts with George Christie and his Minstrels in New Orleans. In the spring of 1861 he was on tour with the Unsworth Minstrels . The highlight of the concerts, including in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Chicago, was the patriotic song Viva l'America sung by Abecco . From April 1861 he sang and played in the Canterbury Music Hall in New York, also known as the Palace of Mirrors . has been. He returned to the Sanford 's Minstrels for the 1861–62 season. From 1862 he was with the Wood 's Minstrels . The Wood 's Minstrels were run by the Minstrel Show Manager Henry Wood. As a member of the ensemble, Abecco is documented in sixty-one performances in New York City in the fall of 1862. In 1863 he performed with the Birch, Cotton, Wells and Abecco's Minstrels in San Francisco. In August 1864, Abecco was a member of the San Francisco Minstrels. In 1865 he went to Australia and stayed there until 1872. In the editions of March 8 and 9, 1865 of The Sidney Herald , the advance notice of two concerts is printed. In addition to the Christy's Minstrels , Raffaele Abecco is listed as the performer. On March 16, the Sidney Empire newspaper announced a benefit concert by Raffaele Abecco. Attention is drawn to a lecture of the Marseillaise in French by Abecco. On April 18, 1865, James Simmonds published the Australian patriotic song Viva Australia , which he specifically dedicated to Raffaele Abecco. Abecco performed several concerts in the Town Hall in Adelaide in January and February 1868 . The fourth, planned concert was canceled due to the lack of audience response. From June 28, 1873, Abecco was a guest harpist on the program RW Butler's Great New York Combination in Boston for two weeks . In 1875 he played with the Simmons and Slocum 's Minstrels and the next season with the Simmons, Slocum and Sweatnam' s Minstrels in Philadelphia. His last engagement was on December 25, 1878 with the Emerson Minstrel’s . He died in Chicago on January 3, 1879, at the age of 42. '

Works (selection)

  • Sigr. R. Abecco's sentimental songster was published by DE Appleton & Co. in San Francisco in 1864. A copy of the work is in the Harvard University Library.

literature

  • Edward Le Roy Rice: Monarchs of Minstrelsy. Kenny Publishing Company, New York City, 1911 p. 118 (English)
  • Helen Wickham Koon: Gold Rush Performers - A biographical dictionary of Actors, Singers, Dancers, Musicians, Circus Performers and Minstrel Players in America's Far West, 1848-1869, McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1994 P. 4 ISBN 0-89950-923-1 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Raffaelle Abecco. In: Music in Gotham. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Nicholas Temperley: Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-78327-078-1 , pp. 163 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  3. ^ Grand Harp Concert by the Italian Brothers . In: Detroit Free Press . Detroit December 5, 1854, p. 3 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 2, 2018]).
  4. ^ A b Edward Le Roy Rice: Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date . ( archive.org [accessed December 17, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Spalding & Roger's Amphitheater . In: The Times-Picayune . New Orleans October 6, 1857, p. 2 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 2, 2018]).
  6. ^ John Franceschina: David Braham: The American Offenbach . Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-135-35852-5 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  7. ^ Sanford's Opera House . In: Public Ledger . Philadelphia October 1, 1860, p. 3 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  8. ^ Sanford's Opera House . In: Public Ledger . Philadelphia October 5, 1860, p. 3 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Amusements . In: The Sunday Delta . New Orleans February 3, 1861, p. 7 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  10. ↑ The Unsworths . In: Pittsburgh Daily Post . Pittsburgh April 4, 1861, p. 1 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  11. ^ H. Millard: Viva l'America . H. De Marsan, New York 1861, OCLC 438165797 (English).
  12. ^ The Great Canterbury Music Hall or Palace of Mirrors . In: New York Daily Herald . New York April 25, 1861, p. 7 (English, newspapers.com [accessed April 3, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Internet Archive: Silver theater, amusements of the mining frontier in early Nevada, 1850 to 1864 . Glendale, Calif., H. Clark Co., 1964 ( archive.org [accessed December 17, 2017]).
  14. ^ San Francisco Public Library: Annals of the San Francisco stage, 1850-1880, Volume 1 p.2 . [San Francisco?]: Federal Theater Project, 1936 ( archive.org [accessed December 17, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Peep o'day - School of Arts . In: Sidney Empire . No. 4190 . Sidney March 16, 1865, p. 1 (English, gov.au ).
  16. ^ Desmond O'Connor: No Need to be Afraid: Italian Settlers in South Australia Between 1839 and the Second World War . Wakefield Press, Adelaide 1996, ISBN 978-1-86254-380-5 , pp. 51 ( google.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  17. ↑ The season of 1872-1873 . In: The history of the Boston Theater, 1854-1901 . Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908, pp. 197 (English, archive.org [accessed December 17, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Internet Archive: Gold Rush performers: a biographical dictionary of actors, singers, dancers, musicians, circus performers and minstrel players in America's Far West, 1848 to 1869 . Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994 ( archive.org [accessed December 17, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Abecco, Raffaele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian harpist, singer (tenor) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1879
Place of death Chicago , Illinois , United States