Thiemo wind jacob van eyck biography
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Jacob van Eyck
Dutch musician and noble (c. 1590 – 1657)
In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Eyck, not Eyck.
JonkheerJacob van Eyck (van EYEK, Dutch:[ˈjaːkɔpfɑnˈɛik]; c. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman, composer and blind musician.
He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was an expert in bell casting and tuning, and taught Pieter and François Hemony how to tune a carillon.
Thiemo wind jacob van eyck biography
Van Eyck is credited with developing the modern carillon together with the brothers in 1644, when they cast the first tuned carillon in Zutphen. He is also known for his collection of 143 compositions for recorder, Der Fluyten Lust-hof, the largest work for a solo wind instrument in European history.
Biography
Early life
Jacob van Eyck was born in 1589 or 1590[a] into a noble family probably in The Hague and raised in the ne