Johann Jakob Froberger

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Johann Jakob Froberger (May 18, 1616 – May 7, 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist, and a pupil of Girolamo Frescobaldi.

Froberger composed numerous titled pieces in a programmatic and affective style, including lamentations on the deaths of the lutenist Blacrocher and Ferdinand III. Approximately 35 keyboard suites, usually deemed most appropriate for performance on the clavichord, survive. Froberger also composed pieces which can successfully be played on either keyed instruments such as the harpsichord or clavichord, or the organ, in various polyphonic genres of the time, including toccatas, capriccii, canzone, and fugue-like ricercari. Froberger did not apparently compose any vocal or religious music.

Froberger had a considerable influence on Dietrich Buxtehude, Georg Böhm, and Johann Pachelbel, as well as, to a certain degree, on Johann Sebastian Bach.

Listening

Image:Audiobutton.png Listen to Johann J. Froberger's Canzon (MIDI file).