Biography
Angelo Ragazzi (* 1680 in Naples , † October 12 1750 in Vienna ) was an Italian composer and violinist .
Ragazzi was trained in Naples at the Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto at Giovanni Carlo Cailò . From 1704 he was a violinist in the Royal Chapel of Naples. In 1707 he was also a violinist in the chapel of Archduke Karl von Habsburg in Barcelona. After his coronation as emperor in 1713 he was a member of the court orchestra in Vienna . In 1722 he was back in Naples in the Capella real palazzo Tues. Only after the death of the concert master Pietro Marchitelli , Ragazzi was given a permanent position. Following the receipt of Naples by the Bourbons in 1734, Ragazzi left his home and finally settled in Vienna, to be again a member of the court orchestra.
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Ragazzis was one of the leading composers of instrumental music of Naples. His compositional style is the influence of the violin concertos of Vivaldi , but also elements of his Viennese teacher Johann Joseph Fux again.
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