VINCENZO ALBRIGI (ALBRIZI). — Musician, b. in Rome on 26 June 1631, d. in Prague on 18 Aug. 1696. He studied in Rome, then became maestro di cappella to Queen Christina of Sweden; he then went to Dresden, at the court of Elector Johann Georg of Saxony, whom he left in 1663 to go first to London and then to Paris. He returned to Dresden, and was organist at St Thomas’s in Leipzig. Meanwhile he had embraced Protestantism, which he abjured in 1682, when he went as maestro di cappella to St Augustine’s in Prague, where he died. His output of sacred music is copious: as an organist and harpsichordist of genius, his symphonies and sonatas enjoyed well-merited renown.
BIBL.: Sammelbände der internationalen Musikgesellschaft, III (1902), p. 487; C. Schmidl, s. V. in Diz. Universale dei Musicisti, I, Milano 1937, pp. 30–31.