[1] Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Alberto Mazzucato, Quarenghi formed the Società di S Cecilia in 1860.
In 1879, he succeeded Raimondo Boucheron as maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral.
He resigned two years later due to ill health and died in Milan on February 3, 1882.
He did write one opera, Il dì di San Michele, which was produced in Milan in 1863.
[1] He taught his teacher's son, Cristoforo Merighi at an unknown time period.