Giovanni Henrico Albicastro [SEP] date of death
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the italianized name of Bavarian composer Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1660 – 26 January 1730), a talented amateur musician who published his compositions pseudonymously. Albicastro came from the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg ("White Castle", thus "Albicastro" in latin). Johann Gottfried Walther included Albicastro in his "Musicalisches Lexicon" (1732) under the mistaken supposition that Albicastro came from Switzerland; consequently he has often
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro – "Sonate a violino solo col basso continuo"
- Tomaso Albinoni
- "Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core", T.204.04 (Op. 4)
- "Poiché al vago seren di due pupille", T.205
- Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns – "St John Passion" (formerly attributed to Reinhard Keiser)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- "Extremum Dei judicium", H.401
- "Judicium Salomonis", performed for the opening of the French parliament
- François Couperin