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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Born: May 1562, Deventer, Netherlands

Died: 16th October 1621, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nationality: Dutch

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition.

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