Valentin Strobel the Younger (baptised 18 Oct 1611 in Halle; died in Strasbourg sometime after 1669) was a German lutenist, theorbo player, and composer whose career moved through several important courts before settling in Strasbourg. Reference sources place him in the Darmstadt Hofkapelle from 1629, at the Stuttgart court in 1634, and then in the service of Margrave Friedrich V of Baden-Durlach, whose household relocated to Strasbourg—where Strobel later became a citizen (1640) and remained active for decades. He was the son of the lutenist/composer Valentin Strobel the Elder (c.1577–1640), and surviving sources link his name to keyboard-tablature manuscripts that explicitly “set” lute/mandore repertory onto the spinet (including a dated collection of 28 dances from 18 May 1672). A reported Strasbourg print of 1668 advertises ensemble “Concerten” for two angéliques and theorbo with treble and bass parts, though the consulted notice functions as a bibliographic report rather than a directly examined surviving copy. His son, Johann Valentin Strobel (b. Strasbourg [baptized], Nov. 16, 1643; d. Darmstadt [buried], Aug. 30, 1688), was also a lutenist who was active at the Darmstadt court from 1668. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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