- Johannes Schenck
Johannes Schenck (
1660 -c.1716 )The Dutch musician and composer Johannes Schenck was born in
Amsterdam in 1660 where he was baptised on 3 June 1660 into the Reformed Church. He became a renowned virtuosoviola da gamba player.His compositions included music for a Dutch Singspiel, Bacchus Ceres en Venus, from which songs were published in 1687, as well as works for the viola da gamba.
Around 1696 he accepted an appointment to the court of Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm II in
Düsseldorf although after Johann Wilhelm's death in 1716, the electoral court moved toMannheim .There is some uncertainty about the date of Schenck's death as there is no mention found in the Düsseldorf Protestant church records or parish and cemetery records in Amsterdam although he is no longer mentioned in the list of court musicians compiled in 1717.
Recordings
* [http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.554414 Nymphs of the Rhine, Vol. 1 (Naxos CD 8.554414)]
* [http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.554415 Nymphs of the Rhine, Vol. 2 (Naxos CD 8.554415)]
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