Hendrik Speuy

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, and the first published work in the Netherlands for a keyboard instrument. He died in Dordrecht.

References

W. Apel, The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1967, pp. 338–339

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 43046626 ISNI: 0000 0001 1875 3957 BNF: cb13812394n (data)

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