Trompeten (C) Sonate (ca. 1660, Dresden) ‘ci was bom into a musically prominent family. In the 1640s he attended the Jesuit Roman Collegio Gemmanico singing the choir under the famed Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674). He became organist there in 1646. He left Italy in 1652 to work in Stockholm in the service of Queen Christina until her abdication in 1654. From late 1656 to 1680, he was Kapelimeister (until 1682, co-Kapelimeister with the castrato Giovanni Andrea Bontempi) in the Dresden court of Crown Prince Johann Georg Il (1613-1680) of Saxony; however during this term, he occasionally traveled for work in London, Venice, Rome and France. Following the death of the Crown Prince, his son and successor Johann Georg Ill fired all the ltalian musicians to save money. Albricl then tock a position as organist at the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig and was required to convert to Lutheranism. About 1682, he left Leipzig to work for the remainder of his life in Prague, however, ‘Rot happily as in his footnote to his Easter Cantata describing himself as ‘former music director of kings, dukes, and princes, music director ofthe former illustrious Saxon duke, today the resigned servant of true lovers of music’ ed., J. Amend I ‘Vincenzo Albrici (1631-1696) [Allegro][Chapter 52 - German and Northen Composers of the Baroque/Albrici] II 1 [Moderato] 14[Chapter 52 - German and Norther Composers of the Baroque/Albrici] Il - Aufziige [Allegro] ff (eumpets alone) {Lento} 7