Georg Muffat (1653–1704) was a Baroque composer and organist, who wrote mostly instrumental music and was particularly important for the part he played in introducing the French and Italian styles to Germany. Muffat was born in Savoy (now in France), and studied music in Paris between 1663 and 1669, where his teacher is often assumed to have been Jean Baptiste Lully. Later, he studied law in Ingolstadt, afterwards settling in Vienna. He worked for the archbishop in Salzburg for some ten years. In about 1680, he travelled to Italy, there studying the organ with Bernardo Pasquini, a follower of the tradition of Girolamo Frescobaldi; he also met Arcangelo Corelli, whose works he admired very much. From 1690 to his death, he was Kapellmeister to the bishop of Passau. His most famous work, 12 orchestral suites, Florelegia (two sets, 1695 and 1698), was one of the earliest German collections of suites in the French manner, utilizing dance movements influenced by those of Lully’s stage works.