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Francesco Gabriele Giovanni Battista Rizzelli

Francesco Gabriele Giovanni Battista Rizzelli

Male 1838 - 1910  (72 years)    Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Francesco Gabriele Giovanni Battista Rizzelli 
    Birth 1838  Italia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1910  Fulham, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Fürst Giuseppe Poniatowski (Relationship: befriended) 
    Person ID I726923  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also Francesco Rizzelli at Wikisource 
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2017 

    Family Ida Louise Cobham Bertolacci,   b. Abt 1845, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1933, 28 Lingfield Road, Wimbledon, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 14 Aug 1888  Kensington, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F316946  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2017 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1838 - Italia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1910 - Fulham, London, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • an Italian music teacher
    • an Italian poet, journalist, librettist, composer and singer (tenor) from Foggia who moved to London from Paris around 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War.
      Rizzelli was a friend and colleague of the composer Poniatowski (a close friend of Napoleon III) and became an important Italian figure in Victorian musical life, though he is now forgotten.
      Perhaps most famously, he wrote Italian lyrics for Tosti's enormously successful Goodbye! (Addio!), recorded by Caruso. He is mentioned as an attendee at the annual dinners of the Società dei fagiolai (bean-eaters) in London.
    • I'm trying to track down a ("sketchy little") portrait of Rizzelli by Theodore Roussel which was exhibited at the Dowdeswell Gallery in 1894.
      I've searched gallery and other art sites and tried contacting the author of the catalogue raisonne (without reply) so I'm guessing it is in private hands somewhere and wondered if Ida had owned it, and what might then have happened to it when she passed away.



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