CCLXXI. FROBERGER, Johann Jakob (1616-1667)
Froberger was huge in his day.
Today, he is remembered for being perhaps the first composer to collect (French) dance suites into a collected composition.
This piece, however, is a stand-alone, in memory of his patron at the time, Ferdinand III. Note the three repeated F's which end the piece! F-III!
Just in time, too -- he didn't get along with Ferdinand's successor Leopold I.
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He refused to allow his work to be published during his lifetime, giving them exclusively to the nobility which supported him.
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