Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1661 — after 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"). Johann Gottfried Walther included Albicastro in his Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) under the mistaken supposition that Albicastro came from Switzerland; consequently he has often been included in lists of Swiss musicians. He might… read more
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1661 — after 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 W… read more
Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1661 — after 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"). Joha… read more