Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a late Renaissance and early Baroque Dutch composer, organist, and influential teacher whose keyboard works helped shape the North German organ tradition.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck canonical | 5 |
| Sweelinck | 2 |
| Jan Swelinck | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10980261 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Context triple: [Flentrop organ, associatedComposer, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck]
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Adrian Willaert
Adrian Willaert was a pioneering Flemish Renaissance composer and founder of the Venetian School, renowned for developing polychoral techniques and significantly shaping 16th-century sacred and secular music.
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B.
Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude was a prominent German-Danish Baroque composer and organist whose innovative keyboard and sacred music profoundly shaped the development of later composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach.
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C.
Johann Buxtehude
Johann Buxtehude was the father of the renowned Baroque composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude, belonging to the same North German musical family.
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D.
Buxtehude
Buxtehude is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval old town and location near Hamburg on the Este River.
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E.
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz was a seminal early Baroque German composer whose sacred and secular vocal works helped lay the foundations for German music before Bach.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Target entity description: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a late Renaissance and early Baroque Dutch composer, organist, and influential teacher whose keyboard works helped shape the North German organ tradition.
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A.
Adrian Willaert
Adrian Willaert was a pioneering Flemish Renaissance composer and founder of the Venetian School, renowned for developing polychoral techniques and significantly shaping 16th-century sacred and secular music.
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B.
Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude was a prominent German-Danish Baroque composer and organist whose innovative keyboard and sacred music profoundly shaped the development of later composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach.
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C.
Johann Buxtehude
Johann Buxtehude was the father of the renowned Baroque composer and organist Dieterich Buxtehude, belonging to the same North German musical family.
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D.
Buxtehude
Buxtehude is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval old town and location near Hamburg on the Este River.
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E.
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz was a seminal early Baroque German composer whose sacred and secular vocal works helped lay the foundations for German music before Bach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baroque composer
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Renaissance composer ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ music teacher ⓘ organist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jan Swelinck
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linked to:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Sweelinck ⓘ
linked to:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Dutch Republic
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Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1562-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1621-10-16 ⓘ |
| employer | Oude Kerk, Amsterdam ⓘ |
| era |
early Baroque
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late Renaissance ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sweelinck
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linked to:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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| fullName | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
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keyboard music ⓘ vocal music ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan ⓘ |
| influenced |
Baroque organ music
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Heinrich Scheidemann ⓘ Jacob Praetorius the Younger ⓘ North German organ school ⓘ Samuel Scheidt ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Franco-Flemish polyphony
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linked to:
Franco-Flemish school
Italian keyboard style ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Dutch ⓘ |
| movement |
Renaissance music
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early Baroque music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of North German organ tradition
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teaching prominent German organists ⓘ virtuosic keyboard compositions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Psalm settings
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fantasias for keyboard ⓘ keyboard variations ⓘ toccatas for keyboard ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
music teacher ⓘ organist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Deventer
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Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ Overijssel ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Amsterdam
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Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| positionHeld | organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam ⓘ |
| religion | Calvinism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Description of subject: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a late Renaissance and early Baroque Dutch composer, organist, and influential teacher whose keyboard works helped shape the North German organ tradition.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
linked to: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
linked to: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck