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Johann Jakob Froberger ( Harpsichord )

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Piccinesco

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Reply 2 by Silbermann

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Piccinesco wrote:

it seems that the music is pleasant.

...and we wouldn't want anything else

In the context of toccatas, one can start by citing the work of C. Merulo: “Toccate in due volumi” with its innovations of a harmonic-structural nature... passing from the improvisatory toccata phase to a phase with sections written in the fugato style of the ricercare.

There, this new multi-sectional compositional mode was developed in Germany by 3 random names: Froberger (indeed), Buxtehude and Bach.

... therefore...

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