In the history of music, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck as Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue in the Renaissance-Baroque eras.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was born at Deventer in 1562. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Music then was written to commission, for a court, a church or a patron, and a composer's freedom was bounded by whoever paid.
He worked as composer, organist and teacher.
The instruments recorded are organ.
His work is classed as renaissance music.
Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
That the work came out of Netherlands shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck died in 1621, aged 59. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Instruments: organ
- Genres: Renaissance music
