Johann Jakob Froberger
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Johann Jakob Froberger was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing the musical form of the suite of dan
The fourth suite from one of the Vienna manuscripts.
One of the toccatas from the Vienna manuscripts.
Allemande faite en passant le Rhin dans une barque en grand péril. Note the 26 numbered passages with explanations of each.
Girolamo Frescobaldi
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Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance
Johann Jakob Froberger
…year Johann Jakob became court organist in Vienna, assisting Wolfgang Ebner. In June he was granted a leave and a stipend to go to Rome to study under Frescobaldi. Froberger spent the next three years in Italy and, like many other musicians who went to study there, apparently converted to Catholicism. He returned…
Girolamo Frescobaldi in a 1619 engraving by Claude Mellan
Ferrara, Frescobaldi's birthplace, in 1600
Facsimile of Aria detta la Frescobalda (1627), the earliest known set of variations on an original theme
Commemorative plaque at the birthplace of Girolamo Frescobaldi