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Exemplary Urtext complete edition which reflects current scholarship. Includes extensive explanatory notes (Eng/Ger)

Johann Jacob Froberger (1617-1667) was a composer of considerable significance during hislifetime, his compositional style representing a synthesis of Italian, French and English influences. Increasingly, musicians and scholars are growing aware of Froberger’s importance for Keyboard music of the 17thcentury, an importance comparable to that of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

Each volume of the complete edition of Froberger’s Organ and Keyboard music is published in German and English with a critical commentaryaswell as a detailed foreword explaining the scope and subdivision of the edition and the editorial techniques. Also, information on performance practice, on instruments of the time and on ornamentation is included, as well asdetails on Froberger’s biography.