The Orpheus from Amsterdam

Van Wijk profiles Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, an important Dutch composer and pedagogue in the transition from renaissance to early baroque. Sweelinck was the eldest of four children of Pieter Swibberts and Elsgen Sweelinck, daughter of the Deventer city surgeon Johan Hendrickszoon Sweelinck and Mari...

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Published inChoir & organ Vol. 29; no. 3; p. 20
Main Author van Wijk, Frank
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Rhinegold Publishing Ltd 01.05.2021
Subjects
Baroque era
Composers
Personal profiles
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
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Summary:Van Wijk profiles Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, an important Dutch composer and pedagogue in the transition from renaissance to early baroque. Sweelinck was the eldest of four children of Pieter Swibberts and Elsgen Sweelinck, daughter of the Deventer city surgeon Johan Hendrickszoon Sweelinck and Marie Snoick. The children used their mothers name as their surname. Sweelinck gained a great reputation as a pedagogue, certainly after 1600. Young organists, especially from northern Germany and in particular the Hanseatic city of Hamburg with which Amsterdam had close ties, were apprenticed to Sweelinck, for which he was nicknamed 'Hamburg organist maker.'
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ISSN:0968-7262