Jan van Turnhout
Jan van Turnhout (c. 1545 – 1614 or 1618) was a composer of the Franco-Flemish School.
Also recorded as Jan-Jacob van Turnhout
Jan van Turnhout
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- Born
- 1545 · Brussels metropolitan area.
- Died
- 1618 · Brussels.
- Nationality
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Occupation
- composer
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Jan van Turnhout (c. 1545 – 1614 or 1618) was a composer of the Franco-Flemish School.
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Jan Jacob van Turnhout was possibly the brother of Geert van Turnhout. In 1577 he was appointed Kapellmeister at St Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen. Around 1586 he got a similar position (maître de chapelle) with Alexander Farnese in Brussels, which he would keep until his death. He published Il primo libro de madrigali en Sacrarum cantionum. Two madrigals and a four-part song by him on Dutch texts are also known from other sources. The latter (Gij meijskens die vander comenscap sijt) was published in 1572 by the Antwerp printer Petrus Phalesius in his anthology of Dutch songs, the Duijtsch musijck boeck.
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1545
Jan van Turnhout born at Brussels metropolitan area.
1618
Jan van Turnhout died on 1 January 1618.
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- 1.Eisenbichler, Konrad. The Sword and the Pen Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena. University of Notre Dame Press. 2012. 9780268078652.
- 2.Sala. Domenico Scarlatti Adventures Essays to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Death. UT Orpheus. 102. 2008. 9788881094622.
- 3.Finscher, Ludwig. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG. 2006. 3-7618-1136-5.
- 4.McMillan Publishers. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, herausgegeben von Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition Volume 25. 2001. 0-333-60800-3.
- 5.American Institute of Musicology. Musica Disciplina A Yearbook of the History of Music. 148. 1994.
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