What is Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?
{{refimprove|date=October 2010}} [[Image:Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.png|thumb|Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in 1606.]] '''Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck''' (May 1562 in [[Deventer]] - 16 October 1621)<ref>{{cite web|title=Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck|url=http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/sweelinck.php|publisher=|work=Classical Net|accessdate=14 December 2011}}</ref> was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[composer]] and [[pipe organ|organist]].<ref>Sadie, Stanley. 1980. ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. Vol.8. Macmillan Publishers Limited, London. Pg. 406–407</ref> Sweelinck (pronounce: ZVAY-link) lived at the end of the [[Renaissance music|Renaissance]] and beginning of the [[Baroque music|Baroque]] periods. He was one of the greatest organists and composers of his day. He was the organist at the Oude Kerk (“Old Church”) in Amsterdam for 44 years. Many musicians travelled a long way to Amsterdam to hear him [[improvisation|improvise]] at the organ. He composed music for the [[pipe organ|organ]] and [[harpsichord]] as well as [[vocal]] music. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon}} [[Category:1562 births]] [[Category:1621 deaths]] [[Category:Baroque composers]] [[Category:Dutch composers]] [[Category:Dutch organists]] [[Category:Musicians from Overijssel]] [[Category:People from Deventer]] [[Category:Renaissance composers]] {{bio-stub}}