Artist Info: Valentin Strobel

Valentin Strobel the Younger (baptised 18 Oct 1611 in Halle; died in Strasbourg sometime after 1669) was a German lutenist, theorbo player, and composer whose career moved through several important courts before settling in Strasbourg.

Reference sources place him in the Darmstadt Hofkapelle from 1629, at the Stuttgart court in 1634, and then in the service of Margrave Friedrich V of Baden-Durlach, whose household relocated to Strasbourg—where Strobel later became a citizen (1640) and remained active for decades. [read more...]