Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) is the greatest Italian keyboard composer and virtuoso.
He draws his compositional material not only from the vast reservoir of the ecclesiastical and scholastic repertoire but also from the popular music. He elevates it to such a dignity as to build with it complex contrapuntal combinations of extraordinary sound impact.
An example is given by "Capriccio Fra Jacopino sopra l'Aria di Ruggiero".
While the basso ostinato of the "Aria di Roggiero" is renewed in 6 variations, the popular motif "Fra Jacopino" intertwines with it, resonating between the voices freely.
The final result inspires order, by the alternation of the varied pattern, and at the same time inspires freedom, by the frequent returns of popular singing.


Harpsichord by Franco Barucchieri, copy of an eighteenth-century anonymous italian instrument.


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