About Hendrik Speuy
Lived 1575 – 1625 (aged 49–50). Hendrik Speuy was a Dutch composer and organist.
Hendrik (or Henderick) Joosten (or Joostzoon) Speuy (c.1575 – 1 October 1625) was a Dutch renaissance organist and composer, and a contemporary of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Speuy was born at Brielle. From 1595 he was organist of the Grote Kerk and Augustijnen Kerk in Dordrecht. In 1610 he composed De Psalmen Davids, a book of bicinia for the Genevan Psalter which he dedicated to the British monarch James I, and the first published work in the Netherlands for a keyboard instrument. He died in Dordrecht.
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Who was Hendrik Speuy?
Dutch musician
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Hendrik Speuy was born in 1575 in Brielle.
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Hendrik Speuy died in 1625 in Dordrecht.
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Hendrik Speuy was a composer and organist.
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Hendrik Speuy was Dutch.
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