Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (born 1562)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Dutch Renaissance composer

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( YAHN PEE-tər-sohn SWAY-link; 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…