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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 240,068 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is the 179th most popular composer (down from 162nd in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 83rd 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 179 out of 1,451. Before him are Amilcare Ponchielli, Jordi Savall, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Gustav Holst, Francesca Caccini, and Luciano Berio. After him are Francesco Cavalli, Giuseppe Torelli, Philip Glass, Sigismond Thalberg, Samuel Barber, and Leonardo Vinci.

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Contemporaries

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, Cornelis van Haarlem, Pietro Bernini, Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Ottavio Rinuccini, and Ercole, Lord of Monaco. 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, Catherine Stenbock, and Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 109 out of 1,646. Before him are Multatuli (1820), Herman Boerhaave (1668), Jacobus Arminius (1560), Kees van Dongen (1877), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), and Jan van Goyen (1596). After him are William II of Holland (1228), Hendrick Avercamp (1585), Edwin van der Sar (1970), Mark Rutte (1967), Jan Jongbloed (1940), and Judith Leyster (1609).

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Among COMPOSERS In Netherlands

Among composers born in Netherlands, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ranks 1. After him are Antonia Brico (1902), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Jacob van Eyck (1590), Louis Andriessen (1939), Simeon ten Holt (1923), Junkie XL (1967), Anthony van Hoboken (1887), and Michel van der Aa (1970).

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