Angelo Maria Scaccia

Angelo Maria Scaccia (ca. 1690 - 29 September 1761) was an Italian composer and violinist who is mainly remembered for his fourteen concertos for the violin. He was notably the first Milanese composer to publish a major set of violin concertos; his Opus 1, a set of 6 concertos, in Amsterdam, c. 1730. He later published a single concerto in 1736. Of his other surviving works, most of them are scattered across a range of manuscript collections; including Pierre Philibert de Blancheton's Fonds Blancheton.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Milan, Scaccia was the son of violinist Carlo Federico Scaccia (died 1751). He received his earliest musical education from his father, and in 1711 he was part of a large contingent of Milanese musicians who performed in Novara in celebration of the transfer of relics of San Gaudenzio di Novara.^[1] In 1720 became a violinist at the theatre at the Royal Palace of Milan; a post he left but then resumed again in 1748. In 1751 he succeeded his father in his post of royal violinist and was awarded the title first ducal patente di violinista.^[2] He remained in that post until his death ten years later.

References

1. Simon McVeigh, Jehoash Hirshberg (2004). The Italian Solo Concerto, 1700-1760: Rhetorical Strategies and Style History. Boydell Press. pp. 257–258.
2. Jehoash Hirshberg (1984). Ten Italian violin concertos from Fonds Blancheton: Part 1. A-R Editions, Inc. p. vii.