Marco Scacchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marco Scacchi

Italian composer and writer on music

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1602

Place of Birth: Gallese, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1662

Profession: composer, music critic, musicologist, music theorist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Marco Scacchi (ca.
1600 – 7 September 1662) was an Italian composer and writer on music.Scacchi was born in Gallese, Lazio.
He studied under Giovanni Francesco Anerio in Rome.
He was associated with the court at Warsaw from 1626, and was kapellmeister there from 1628 to 1649.
His 1643 treatise Cribrum musicum accused Paul Siefert of having poor technique, leading to a war of words which lasted years.
He then returned to Italy after falling ill, where he concentrated on writing about music theory.
Scacchi believed that each genre of music should have its own unique style, and he devised his own system of classifying works which proved influential on later generations; Angelo Berardi quoted him at length in his 1687 treatise Documenti armonici. Scacchi was a prolific composer, who wrote masses, madrigals, and sacred concertos.
Nearly all of his stage works have been lost.
He died in Gallese.