Michele Mascitti (1664-1760) - Concerto a sei stromenti (1727)

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Composer: Michele Mascitti (1664-1760)
Work: Concerto a sei stromenti des 'IV Concerti a sei stromenti, due violini e basso del concertino e un violino, alto viola, col basso di ripieno ... opera settima, libro secondo' (1727)
Performers: Camerata Anxаnum

Drawing: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Gezicht op het Paleis van Versailles gezien vanaf de tuin Vue du Chateau de Versailles
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Michele (Michel, Miquel) Mascitti [Masciti]
(Chieti, nr Naples, 1664 - Paris, 24 April 1760)

Italian composer and violinist. He was a pupil of his uncle Pietro Marchitelli, a violinist in the Naples royal chapel. After travels throughout Europe, he settled in Paris in 1704. He soon attracted the attention of the Duke of Orléans and through him gained the opportunity to play before the king, the dauphin and the whole court. He became a figurehead of Italian instrumental music in France and was regarded as the peer of Arcangelo Corelli and Tomaso Albinoni. Possessing the advantage over his fellow-nationals of residence in Paris, where all nine of his published collections were first issued between 1704 and 1738, he enjoyed enormous popularity with the French public. In 1739 he became a French citizen by naturalization. All of his 116 printed works are for strings; 100 are solo sonatas, 12 are trio sonatas, and four are concertos of rather Corellian design.