[36] From this vacation seems also to date a journey to Dresden, where he was accorded a magnificent reception by the Elector of Saxony, to whom the Emperor had sent him.
[37] In two autograph letters, of June 25 and October 23, 1667, addressed to Christian Huygens, the Princesse de Montbéliard gives details of Froberger's death, expressing her grief at the decease of the "Chevalier," a true "Patron of noble music." These letters, which were discovered in 1874 by Dr. E. Schebeck, have been published by him, somewhat revised, and by Jonckenbloet and Land in their original form.
[38] These suites are found in the Vienna manuscript and in one of the Spitta collection. (See Franz Beier: Ueber J.J. Froberger's Leben und Bedeutung für die Klaviersuite.)
[39] Unam exhibemus quam D. Io. Jac. Frobergerus organoedus Caesarius celeberrimus olim organoedi Hieron. Frescobaldi discipulus supra UT RE MI FA SOL LA exhibuit. (Musurgia universalis, Vol. i, p. 466.)
[40] He excelled in movements in triplets.
[41] Anleitung zur musikalischen Gelahrtheit.
[42] J.S. Bach is already foreshadowed in Froberger's compositions. Thus, in this double of an Allemande:
[43] Kerl was sent to Rome by Emperor Ferdinand III. about 1649; he received some lessons from Carissimi.