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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

1562 - 1621

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( YAHN PEE-tər-sohn SWAY-link; April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck has received more than 217,222 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is the 162nd most popular composer (up from 174th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 87th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Composer.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer and organist. He is most famous for his keyboard compositions, which are considered to be some of the finest examples of the Dutch Baroque style.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 162 out of 1,216Before him are Gustav Holst, Giovanni Paisiello, Marin Marais, Vittorio Monti, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Francesco Cavalli. After him are Ferruccio Busoni, John Barry, Nicola Porpora, Scott Joplin, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and Franz von Suppé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1562, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 3Before him are Lope de Vega and Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. After him are Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Xu Guangqi, Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena, Cornelis van Haarlem, Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Pietro Bernini, Ottavio Rinuccini, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Bento de Góis. Among people deceased in 1621, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 7Before him are Philip III of Spain, Pope Paul V, Robert Bellarmine, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Thomas Harriot, and Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Michael Praetorius, Şehzade Mehmed, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Cristofano Allori, Antoine de Montchrestien, and Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 83 out of 1,427Before him are Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Sophia of Hanover (1630), Cornelius Jansen (1585), Bernard Mandeville (1670), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), and Bernard Haitink (1929). After him are Geert Hofstede (1928), Judith Leyster (1609), Lucas van Leyden (1494), Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), Gerard David (1450), and Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931).

Among COMPOSERS In Netherlands

Among composers born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 1After him are Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Louis Andriessen (1939), Jacob van Eyck (1590), Anthony van Hoboken (1887), Simeon ten Holt (1923), Junkie XL (1967), and Michel van der Aa (1970).