Johann Jakob Froberger

Johann Jakob Froberger (baptized May 19, 1616, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died May 7, 1667, Héricourt, Fr.) was a German composer, organist, and harpsichordist whose keyboard compositions are generally acknowledged to be among the richest and most attractive of the early Baroque era. Froberger became a court organist in Vienna in 1637, but the same year he went to Rome to study under Girolamo Frescobaldi. After further employment at the Viennese court (1641–45 and 1653–57), he toured...