COMPOSER

Jacob van Eyck

1590 - 1657

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Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck ( van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɛik]; c. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman, composer and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was an expert in bell casting and tuning, and taught Pieter and François Hemony how to tune a carillon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob van Eyck has received more than 91,992 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jacob van Eyck is the 662nd most popular composer (up from 744th in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 428th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacob van Eyck ranks 662 out of 1,451. Before him are Péter Eötvös, Sun Ra, Anton Schindler, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Oskar Merikanto, and Johann Friedrich Agricola. After him are Johann Schobert, Johann Strauss III, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, William Boyce, Antoine François Marmontel, and Antoine Forqueray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Jacob van Eyck ranks 11. Before him are Simon Vouet, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gioachino Greco, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Yamada Nagamasa, and Urbain Grandier. After him are Théophile de Viau, John Albert II, Daniel Seghers, María de Zayas, William Bradford, and Sarmad Kashani. Among people deceased in 1657, Jacob van Eyck ranks 16. Before him are Laura Mancini, Andrew Bobola, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Hayashi Razan, Robert Blake, and Olimpia Maidalchini. After him are Menasseh Ben Israel, Johann Baptist Cysat, Evert van Aelst, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, John Lilburne, and William Bradford.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob van Eyck ranks 403 out of 1,646. Before him are Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Theo de Jong (1947), Joseph Luns (1911), Allaert van Everdingen (1621), Paulus Moreelse (1571), and William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1613). After him are Pim Verbeek (1956), Hakim Ziyech (1993), Herman Gorter (1864), Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911), Philip de Koninck (1619), and Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635).

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Among COMPOSERS In Netherlands

Among composers born in Netherlands, Jacob van Eyck ranks 7. Before him are Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562), Antonia Brico (1902), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Willem Mengelberg (1871), and Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510). After him are Louis Andriessen (1939), Simeon ten Holt (1923), Junkie XL (1967), Anthony van Hoboken (1887), and Michel van der Aa (1970).

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