{{Short description|Italian composer and writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Marco Scacchi | birth_date = {{ca.|1600}} | birth_place = Gallese, Papal States | death_date = {{death date and age|1662|09|07|1600|df=y}} | death_place = Gallese, Papal States | occupation = Composer }} '''Marco Scacchi''' ({{ca.|1600}} – 7 September 1662) was an Italian composer and writer on music.<ref name=palisca/>

Born in Gallese, Lazio, Scacchi 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.

==Theoretical works== *''Cribrum musicum ad triticum Siferticum, seu Examinatio succinta psalmorum ...'' Venetiis: Alessandro Vincenti, 1643 *''Lettera per maggiore informatione a chi leggerà il mio 'Cribrum''' Venice, 1644; lost, survives in two manuscript transcriptions *''Judicium cribri musici'' Warsaw c1649; lost, manuscript transcription in the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale Giovanni Battista Martini, Bologna *''Breve discorso sopra la musica moderna, di Marco Scacchi romano, maestro di cappella del serenissimo & potentissimo Giovanni Casimiro rè di Polonia & Svetia, ... '' Warszawa: Peter Elert 1649

==References== <references>

<ref name=palisca>{{cite web|last=Palisca|first=Claude V. and Zygmunt M. Szweykowski|title=Marco Scacchi|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/44005?q=marco+scacchi|work=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford Music Online|access-date=15 August 2011}} (subscription needed)</ref>

*"Marco Scacchi". ''The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music''. Oxford University Press, 1994.

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==External links== *{{ChoralWiki}}

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