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Jacob van Eyck

1590 - 1657

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Jonkheer Jacob van Eyck ( van EYEK, Dutch: [ˈjaːkɔp fɑn ˈɛik]; c. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman, composer and blind musician. He was one of the best-known musicians of the Dutch Golden Age, working as a carillon player and technician, a recorder virtuoso, and a composer. He was an expert in bell casting and tuning, and taught Pieter and François Hemony how to tune a carillon. Van Eyck is credited with developing the modern carillon together with the brothers in 1644, when they cast the first tuned carillon in Zutphen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob van Eyck is the 675th most popular composer (down from 662nd in 2019), the 407th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 403rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Jacob van Eyck ranks 675 out of 1,451. Before him are Elfrida Andrée, François-Joseph Fétis, Sergei Lyapunov, Myroslav Skoryk, Antônio Carlos Gomes, and Andrea Falconieri. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Francesco Canova da Milano, Claude Balbastre, Hans Rott, Adolf Wiklund, and Francisco Guerrero.

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Among people born in 1590, Jacob van Eyck ranks 14. Before him are Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Gioachino Greco, Urbain Grandier, John Albert II, Yamada Nagamasa, and Théophile de Viau. After him are María de Zayas, Daniel Seghers, and Sarmad Kashani. Among people deceased in 1657, Jacob van Eyck ranks 17. Before him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Kâtip Çelebi, Olimpia Maidalchini, Laura Mancini, Robert Blake, and Hayashi Razan. After him are Andrew Bobola, Dilras Banu Begum, Johann Baptist Cysat, Evert van Aelst, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and John Lilburne.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob van Eyck ranks 407 out of 1,646. Before him are Dick Nanninga (1949), Marc Overmars (1973), Olivier van Noort (1558), Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), and Ronald de Boer (1970). After him are Corrie ten Boom (1892), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Herman Gorter (1864), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Anna van Egmont (1533), and Karel Dujardin (1622).

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Among COMPOSERS In Netherlands

Among composers born in Netherlands, Jacob van Eyck ranks 7. Before him are Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), and Antonia Brico (1902). After him are Junkie XL (1967), Louis Andriessen (1939), Anthony van Hoboken (1887), Simeon ten Holt (1923), and Michel van der Aa (1970).

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