Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781) was an Italian oboist and composer and also member of an extensive family of musicians from the eighteenth-century Naples.
[2] He was from 8 October 1727 to 1731 a member of the Ducal Guardia Irlandese, a hautboy band created in 1702 by Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma.
[3] From 1734 he was active in Naples until the birth of his son Carlo Besozzi in 1738,[1] when he left for Dresden to join the orchestra of the Royal Chapel and become its first oboist in 1739.
[1] In the years 1758–59 he was in the service of the court of Stuttgart, under the direction of Niccolò Jommelli, after which they returned to Dresden until he resigned in 1774.
[1] In May 1778 he played in Salzburg with his son, having been held in high esteem by Leopold Mozart.