Composer · 1680 – 1750
Angelo Ragazzi
Biography
Angelo Ragazzi
(b ?1680; d Vienna, 1750). Italian composer. He studied the violin at the Naples Conservatory of S Maria di Loreto with Giancarlo Chilò (or Cailò), who had moved to Naples from Rome with Alessandro Scarlatti.
In 1704 he was employed as a violinist in the royal chapel in Naples (where at some time he was Konzertmeister, according to a Dresden manuscript); when Naples passed under Habsburg rule, he went first to Barcelona and then to Vienna, where he entered the service of Emperor Charles VI. He stayed there from 1713 to 1722, when he returned to Naples, but moved to Vienna again in 1729 (possibly as a result of the transfer of power in Naples from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons); he remained there for the rest of his life, retiring in 1740, ten years before he died.