Riccio, (Antonio) Teodoro (c. 1540–after 1599)

Italian composer. After holding the post of choirmaster at a church at Brescia, he was appointed music director by the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. He settled there and followed the margrave to Königsberg in 1579, having become a Lutheran, and returned to Ansbach with his patron in 1586. Johann Eccard served under him there from 1581 and succeeded him at his death.

Works Church and secular music motets and other church music; madrigals, Canzoni alla napoletana; some of his canzonas are based on themes by Gabrieli.