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Name: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Birth Date: 1562
Death Date: October 16, 1621
Place of Birth: Deventer, Holland
Place of Death: Amsterdam, Holland
Nationality: Dutch
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer, organist, teacher

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Biography of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and teacher. His vocal works are in the outgoing late Renaissance tradition; his keyboard works synthesize various traditions into the first great formulation of the baroque keyboard...


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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (April or May, 1562–October 16, 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of...


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The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Its Style, Significance, and Influence. (book reviews)
09/01/1998: 1,529 words, approx. 5 pages
By Pieter Dirksen. (Muziekhistorische monografieen, 15.) Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1997. [713 p. ISBN 90-6375159-1. Dfl. 150.] This volume will surely be the standard reference for years to come on the keyboard works of the Netherlands' principal late-Renaissance (or early-baroque)...


 

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