Sweelinck

by Frits Noske

The first survey in English of the life and works of the great Dutch composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), this book provides a thorough analysis of his keyboard and vocal composition techniques set against the background of his life in sixteenth- and seveteenth-century
Amsterdam.

Genres: Music

148 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

This brief book covers the late Renaissance Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, who chiefly composed vocal and keyboard music. While Noske ably covers the subject matter and provides useful and easy to follow analyses of Sweelinck's music, the prose is a bit dry and at times assumes the reader is already familiar with the extant literature on the composer. I found this book useful, since I am learning to play some of Sweelinck's organ music, but it was not necessarily the most pleasurable of reads.