Florence, 1810 - Paris, 1885

Italian composer. She made her début in Florence on 21 June 1830 with the successful performance at the Teatro della Pergola of Saul, a sacred opera in two acts, for which she wrote both libretto and music. Her two-act melodramma Anna di Resburo (libretto by Gaetano Rossi) was performed in Naples two years later.
The overture of her opera Eufemio da Messina was performed in Milan in 1833.
Uccelli’s only other known work is a cantatan for chorus and orchestra, Sulla morte di Maria Malibran. She was widowed in 1843 and moved to Paris with her daughter Giulia, a singer.
They performed together on concert tours in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Bibliography:

J. Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens
J. Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens suppl.
C. Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti
A. Bonaventura: ‘Le donne italiane e la musica’, Rivista musicale italiana, XXXII (1925)
U. Manferrari: Dizionario universale delle opere melodrammatiche (Florence, 1955)
Grove Music Online: www.oxfordmusiconline.com

Author:

Matteo Sansone