He was born in Lunéville in France. From 1763 until his death, he was maestro di cappella to the Grand Duke of Florence. He wrote music in a variety of forms, but was particularly prolific in instrumental music, publishing several sets of trio sonatas. He died in Florence.
CarloAntonioCampioni also known as CarloAntonio Campione or Charles Antoine Campion (November 16, 1720 – April 12, 1788) was an Italian composer, as well as a collector of early music.
Anton Raaff believes Campioni studied violin with Giuseppe Tartini in Padua.
To this day, a catalogue of Campioni's music put together by at-the-time Ambassador Thomas Jefferson is useful to musicologists in studying Campioni's oeuvre.
Floros, Musicisti livornesi: C.A. Campioni, in «Rivista di Livorno», V, (1955)
Floros, L'opera strumentale di C.A. Campioni, in «Rivista di Livorno», IX, (1959)
Fabbri, E. Settesoldi, Precisazioni biografiche sul musicista pseudolivornese CarloAntonioCampioni (1720--1788), in «Rivista Italiana di Musicologia», III, (1968), pp.