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Jacob van Eyck

1590 - 1657

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Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck ( van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjaː.kɔp vɑn 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 86,867 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jacob van Eyck is the 745th most popular composer (down from 564th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 309th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacob van Eyck ranks 745 out of 1,216. Before him are Alexander Spendiaryan, Joseph Marx, Heinrich Scheidemann, Helmut Walcha, Armando Trovajoli, and Conradin Kreutzer. After him are Giacomo Antonio Perti, Johann Krieger, Anton Walter, Giuseppe Martucci, Gabriel Yared, and Pierre Attaingnant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1590, Jacob van Eyck ranks 12. Before him are Simon Vouet, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Gioachino Greco, Yamada Nagamasa, Urbain Grandier, and Théophile de Viau. After him is William Bradford. Among people deceased in 1657, Jacob van Eyck ranks 17. Before him are Jacob van Campen, Andrew Bobola, Robert Blake, Menasseh Ben Israel, Hayashi Razan, and Olimpia Maidalchini. After him are John Lilburne, Evert van Aelst, Johann Baptist Cysat, and William Bradford.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob van Eyck ranks 429 out of 1,427. Before him are Isaac Israëls (1865), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Frans Post (1612), Caesar van Everdingen (1616), Rudi Carrell (1934), and Jan Akkerman (1946). After him are Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), Macropedius (1487), Gerard Reve (1923), Candy Dulfer (1969), Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857), and Willy van der Kuijlen (1946).

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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), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), and Louis Andriessen (1939). After him are Anthony van Hoboken (1887), Simeon ten Holt (1923), Junkie XL (1967), and Michel van der Aa (1970).

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