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| baroque composers | |
| german composers | |
| people from baden-württemberg | |
| german classical organists | |
| organists and composers in the south german tradition | |
| 1616 births | |
| 1667 deaths | |
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LIFE Froberger was born in 1616 in , Dresden , Antwerp , London , and, most importantly, Paris , where he lived for three years (1650-1653) and studied French style. After Ferdinand's death, Froberger went to Alsace where became a music teacher. He died in Héricourt in 1616. WORKS AND INFLUENCE Froberger composed numerous titled pieces in a programmatic and affective style, including lamentations on the deaths of the Lutenist Blacrocher and Ferdinand III . (He represents Blacrocher's fatal fall down a flight stairs with a descending scale, and Ferdinand's ascent into heaven with an ascending one.) Approximately 35 keyboard Suite s, 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 Toccata s, Capriccios , Canzonas , and Fugue -like Ricercar s. Froberger did not apparently compose any vocal or religious music. Froberger had a considerable influence on Dieterich Buxtehude , Georg Böhm , and Johann Pachelbel , as well as, to a certain degree, on Johann Sebastian Bach . EXTERNAL LINKS MEDIA |