- Anthoni van Noordt
Anthoni van Noordt (c.1619 - 23 March 1675) was a Dutch
composer and organist.Born in
Amsterdam , where he lived throughout his life, he was the brother ofJacobus van Noordt . He became the organist of the Nieuwezijdskapel in 1652, and moved to take up a post at theNieuwe Kerk in 1664, where he remained until 1673.His known compositions are all for organ, and are in the tradition of
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and theNorth German school . There tenpsalm settings, of which nine includevariations , and sixfugal fantasias. The works are of a high quality, showing contrapuntal mastery and a sure technique. The works were printed in a "Tabulatuur-boeck van psalmen en fantasyen" (Amsterdam, 1659), now in the library of theJagiellonian University ,Kraków ; the notation used is unusual, with manual parts on two six-linestave s (known as Anglo-Dutch notation) and the pedal part underneath in Germanorgan tablature .Further reading
His compositions may be found in a copy by
A.G. Ritter made in 1882, in "Uitgave van oudere Noord-Nederlandsche Meesterwerken"' XIX (1896, 1976), and the psalm settings only in an edition by P. Pidoux (Kassel, 1954).*H. van Nieuwkoop: "Anthoni van Noordt and the Organs of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam", "
Organ Yearbook " XXI (1990)
*H. van Nieuwkoop: "Anthoni van Noordt andMatthias Weckmann : Two Contemporaries", (Weckmann Symposium: Göteborg 1991)ources
*Randall H. Tollefsen/Johan Giskes, 'Noordt [Noort, Noord, Oort, Oord] , van', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed
2007-06-10 ), http://www.grovemusic.com/External links
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