Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also: Johann(es) Hieronymus Kapsberger or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger; c. 1580 – Rome 17 January 1651) was an Austrian-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of the early Baroque period. A prolific and highly original composer, Kapsberger is chiefly remembered today for his lute and theorbo (chitarrone) music, which was seminal in the development of these as solo instruments. His nickname was "the German of the theorbo", deriving from his fame as a virtuoso of the theorbo and of the other instruments belonging to the lute family.

Genre: medieval

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Albums (49)

Whispers of Classics (2025-12-07)
The Last Rose (2025-04-18)
Vox Feminae (2025-03-28)
Toccata Arpeggiata in D Major (Arr. for Chamber Orchestra by Christiane Seeger) (2025-03-14)
Toccata 1 (2025-02-14)
Kapsperger: Toccata arpeggiata (2024-12-13)
Felici gl'animi (2024-11-15)
Libro Quarto D'intavolatura Di Chitarrone: Preludio X (2024-01-07)
La Tiorba y el Todeschino (Primo libro d'intavolatura di chitarrone, Venezia 1604) (2022-11-09)
Gesualdo: Il liuto del principe (2022-05-27)
Alter Ego (2022-05-06)
Inferno (2021-10-08)
Kapsberger: Libro Primo 1611 (2021-09-17)
Kapsberger in Rome, 1610 "Il Tedesco" (2021-08-27)
Summer Breeze (2021-05-07)
Kapsberger: Che fai tù? (Vilanelles) (2020-03-27)
Liuto phantasticus (2020-02-15)
Virtù e nobiltà: Theorbo Music in Baroque Rome (2019-09-20)
Intavolatura di chitarone (2019-08-02)
Toccata Arpeggiata (2019-01-31)
Kapsberger: Intavolatura di chitarrone, Book 3 (2018-10-19)
Traumwerk (2018-04-13)
Handel goes Wild (2017-09-01)
Kapsperger: Intavolatura (2016-07-29)
Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger: Música para Tiorba (2016-04-05)
Cavalli: "L'amore innamorato" (2015-10-23)
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Il terzo libro di villanelle (Arr. for Guitar) (2015-07-24)
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger: Libro primo di villanelle (Arr. for Guitar) (2015-07-20)
Metamorfosi - Baroque Impressions (2014-10-28)
Kapsberger: Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto (2013-07-04)
Italian Virtuosi of the Chitarrone (2012-08-07)
The Journeys of Rubens (2012-05-01)
The Jesuit Operas (2011-02-01)
Kapsberger: I pastori di Bettelemme (2011-01-04)
The Art of the Lute (2009-11-10)
Kapsbergiana (2009-07-24)
A Portrait (1970-01-01)
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar: The Complete Alpha Recordings (1970-01-01)
Kapsberger: Alla Caccia (2000-01-01)
Lute Music Of The Renaissance From The Schele Manuscript 1619 (2000-01-01)
Kapsberger, G.: Lute Music (2000-01-01)
Kapsberger: La Villanella (1970-01-01)
Lo Sposalizio: The Wedding of Venice to the Sea (Ascension Day, 1600) (1998-07-01)
The Age of Extravagance: VIrtuoso Iberian & Italian Cornett Music (1998-03-01)
Kapsberger : Works for Soprano and Lute (DAW 50) (1995-05-01)
Kapsperger: Libro primo d'intavolatvra di lauto (1995-01-01)
Kapsberger : Tablatures de chitarrone et de luth (1993-10-15)
Kapsberger: Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitaronne (1993-01-01)
Baroque Lute Music, Vol. I: Kapsberger (1990-10-10)

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