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Staggins, Nicholas

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Staggins, Nicholas (1645-1700)

English composer. Charles II appointed him Master of the King's Band in 1674. He advanced to the post of Master of the King's Musick, and was succeeded in it after his death by John Eccles.

He took a degree in music at Cambridge University in 1682, and became professor of music there in 1684.

Works

Stage

the masque Calisto, or The Chaste Nimph (Crowne); incidental music for Etheredge's The Man of Mode, Lee's Gloriana, Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, and Shadwell's Epsom Wells (last two with Robert Smith).

Other

odes for the birthday of William III; songs.
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