Henricus Albicastro (1661-1730)
- Concerti (V, g-moll) à quatro, opera settima (1704)
Performers: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Julian Doyle (conductor)
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German composer and violinist. In 1686, he 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'. 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
remained active in this position until 1730, when he died in Maastricht.
One source erroneously suggests he may have died in 1738.
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