Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) was a Czech-Austrian composer and violinist.

Biber was born on 12th August 1644 in Stráž pod Ralskem (Czechia). He was a violinist at the castle of Kromeriz and the Salzburg court, and In 1684 became Kapellmeister in Salzburg, where he died twenty years later on 3rd May 1704.

His works show a predilection for canonic use and harmonic diapason that pre-date the later Baroque works of Johann Pachelbel and Johann Sebastian Bach. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Heinrich+Ignaz+Franz+von+Biber">Read more on Last.fm</a>