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Giovanni Henrico Albicastro
12+ albums
baroquegermancomposerClassicalJohann Heinrich von Weissenburg
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Giovanni Henrico Albicastro (c. 1660 – 26 January 1730) was a talented amateur musician who published his compositions pseudonymously in Amsterdam. His name is the italianized version of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg. Albicastro came from Klosterneuburg near Vienna, or the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg ("White Castle", thus "Albicastro" in Latin or Italian). Johann Gottfried Walther included Albicastro in his Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) under the mistaken supposition that Albicastro came from Switzerland; consequently he has often been included in lists of Swiss musicians. In 1686, Albicastro moved to Leiden, in the Netherlands, where he registered at the University of Leiden as a Musicus Academiae, but his name does not appear in the university's archives. In 1696, a collection of twelve of his trio sonatas appeared, entitled Il giardino armonico sacro-profano ("The sacred-profane harmonic garden"), Op. 3. Edited by François Barbry, it was published in Bruges by François van Heurck; no copies of the last six, or of Albicastro's opus 1 or opus 2 from Bruges seem to have survived. In Amsterdam a separate set of opus numbers were published by Estienne Roger: collections of violin sonatas (Opp. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9), trio sonatas (Opp. 1, 4 and 8), and string concertos (Op. 7) in a Corellian idiom. During the last phases of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713), he served as a captain of cavalry. He
top songs
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Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 6 ''La Follia"
182Concerto a 4 in B minor, Op. 7, No. 7
103Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11
94Concerto a 4 in C major, Op. 7, No. 3
85Concerto a 4 in D major, Op. 7, No. 8
86Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5
77Concerto a 4 in G major, Op. 7, No. 9
78Concerto a 4 in C minor, Op. 7, No. 4
79Concerto a 4 in F major, Op. 7, No. 1
710Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op. 7, No. 2
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Corelli, Telemann, Leclair, Handel & Albicastro: Violin Sonatas
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Audiophile Baroque
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Concerti grossi
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Albicastro - Sonate, Cantate & Concertos
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Audiophile Baroque,
Violin Sonata No. 9 d-moll
Concerto A Quattro No. 2 d-moll
Concerto A Quattro No. 12 f-moll
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G. H. Albicastro, Cantate, Sonates & Concertos
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Audiophile - Baroque
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Concerto A Quattro No. 4 c-moll
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L'Olimpiade: The Opera