Hendrik (or Henderick) Joosten (or Joostzoon) Speuy (c.1575 – 1 October 1625) was a Dutch

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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

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. In 1610 he composed ''De Psalmen Davids'', a book of

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for the

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which he dedicated to the British monarch

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, 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Speuy, Hendrick Joosten 1575 births 1625 deaths Dutch Baroque composers Composers for pipe organ Renaissance composers Dutch classical organists Organists and composers in the North German tradition German male organists People from Brielle People from Dordrecht 17th-century classical composers Dutch male classical composers Dutch classical composers 17th-century male musicians Male classical organists