1562 - 1621
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, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 162 out of 1,216. Before 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.
1874 - 1934
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 156
1740 - 1816
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 157
1656 - 1728
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 158
1868 - 1922
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 159
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 160
1602 - 1676
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 161
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 162
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 163
1933 - 2011
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 164
1686 - 1768
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 165
1868 - 1917
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 166
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 167
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 168
Among people born in 1562, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 3. Before 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 7. Before 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.
1562 - 1635
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 1
1562 - 1630
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 2
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 3
1562 - 1612
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 4
1562 - 1633
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 5
1562 - 1628
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 6
1562 - 1638
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 7
1562 - 1604
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 8
1562 - 1629
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 9
1562 - 1621
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 10
1562 - 1609
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 11
1562 - 1607
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 12
1578 - 1621
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 1
1552 - 1621
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 2
1542 - 1621
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 3
1559 - 1621
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 4
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 5
1590 - 1621
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 6
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 7
1571 - 1621
HPI: 63.27
Rank: 8
1605 - 1621
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 9
1560 - 1621
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 10
1577 - 1621
HPI: 59.71
Rank: 11
1575 - 1621
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 12
1574 - 1621
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 13
Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 83 out of 1,427. Before 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).
1592 - 1656
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 77
1630 - 1714
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 78
1585 - 1638
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 79
1670 - 1733
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 80
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 81
1929 - 2021
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 82
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 83
1928 - 2020
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 84
1609 - 1660
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 85
1494 - 1533
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 86
1930 - 2002
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 87
1450 - 1523
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 88
1931 - 2021
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 89
Among composers born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 1. After 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).
1562 - 1621
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 1
1928 - 2012
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 2
1871 - 1951
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 3
1643 - 1722
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 4
1510 - 1555
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 5
1939 - 2021
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 6
1590 - 1657
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 7
1887 - 1983
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 8
1923 - 2012
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 9
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 10
1970 - Present
HPI: 34.00
Rank: 11