San Francisco County

Biographies

 

EUGENIO BIANCHI

 

Eugenio Bianchi, an honored citizen and one of the best known teachers of music in San Francisco, was born in Italy.  He was reared and educated in his native land.  He came from a musical family, and his musical education was received under the instruction of the great composer, Pacini, and others.

 

In 1856 he came to America, and in Mexico sang with the great opera companies.  The following year he located in San Francisco, and since that time, for the past thirty-four years, has made this city his home.  He introduced Italian opera here in 1857, and since then has sung with all the great opera companies, having taken part in fifty-eight different operas.  He possessed in his day the most noted tenor voice on this coast, and one of the greatest in this country.  For many years his time and attention have been given to teaching advanced pupils.

 

Professor Bianchi’s wife, Madam Bianchi, received her musical education in Milan, at the Conservatory.  She commenced her musical education in Venice, under the able Prof. Devalle, and finishing at Milan under Lamperti, Sr.  She is a well-known prima donna, who possessed a remarkable soprano voice, and has taken part with her husband in all great operas.

 

They are the parents of three children, two of whom are now dead.  Their surviving child, a son, is now studying law, and hopes to make the same his profession some time in the future.

 

Transcribed by Donna L. Becker 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 105-106, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.

© 2005 Donna L. Becker.