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JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER

(1616 - 1667)

The German composer, keyboard player, and organist Johann Jacob Froberger was considered the leading keyboard composer of his time in Germany. He was the son of a musician, the later Stuttgart Kapellmeister, and eventually studied in Rome with Frescobaldi. He was in court employment in Vienna and Brussels, and won success as a performer in France and in England. From 1653 to 1658 he was court organist in Vienna, and spent his last years at the French estate of Princess Sibylla of Wrttemberg-Montbliard.

Keyboard Music

Frobergers surviving compositions are, with two exceptions, for keyboard, in the current Italian and French forms of the time, suites with dance movements, toccatas, canzonas and ricercari, absorbed into a German tradition that had considerable formative influence, particularly in the later years of the 17th century.


Role: Classical Composer
Album Title	Catalogue No	Work Category

Chamber Music - MERULA, T. / ROSENMULLER, J. / MUFFAT, G. / FROBERGER, J.J. (Musique Transalpine a la cour de Louis XIV) (Le Concert Brise)	Carpe Diem CD-16263	Chamber Music, Instrumental
Chamber Music (Baroque) - PANDOLFI MEALLI, G.A. / FROBERGER, J.J. (Style fantastique) (Bellocq, Le Concert Brise)	Carpe Diem CD-16280	Chamber Music, Instrumental
FROBERGER: Toccatas and Partitas / Meditation / Lamentation on the Death of Ferdinand III	Naxos 8.557472-73	Instrumental
LA TRIOMPHANTE - VIRTUOSO KEYBOARD WORKS OF THE 16TH TO 18TH CENTURY	Naxos 8.551061	Instrumental
Organ Music - FROBERGER, J. / POGLIETTI, A. / SCHERER, S. / KERLL, J. (Historic Organ Series, Vol. 5) (Marcon)	Divox CDX-79805	Instrumental
Organ Music - PRAETORIUS, H. / HOFHAIMER, P. / HASSLER, H.L. / GABRIELI, A. / BULL, J. / SCHEIDT, S. / KOTTER, H. / SCHEIDEMANN, H. / BUXTEHUDE, D.	Capriccio C49444	Concertos, Instrumental
Organ Recital: Hensel, Heidrun – BACH, J.S. / MUFFAT, G. / KERLL, J.K. / ZIPOLI, D. / FROBERGER, J.J. (Suddeutsche Orgelmeister, Vol. 3)	Oehms Classics OC542	Concertos, Instrumental
Organ Recital: Koopman, Ton – KERLL, J.K. / PAUMANN, K. / SCHLICK, A. / BUCHNER, H. / KOTTER, H. / HASSLER, H.L. / ERBACH, C. / SCHEIDEMANN, H.	Capriccio C10228	Instrumental
Piano Recital: Rangell, Andrew - SWEELINCK, J.P. / BACH, J.S. / ENESCU, G. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / MESSIAEN, O. (A Recital of Intimate Works)	Dorian Sono Luminus DIS-80147	Instrumental

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