Jan van Turnhout explained

Jan van Turnhout (c. 1545 – 1614^[1] or 1618^[2]) was a composer of the Franco-Flemish School.^{[3] [4]}

Life and work

Jan Jacob van Turnhout^{[2] [5]} was possibly the brother of Geert van Turnhout. In 1577 he was appointed Kapellmeister at St Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen. Around 1586 he got a similar position (maître de chapelle) with Alexander Farnese in Brussels, which he would keep until his death.

He published Il primo libro de madrigali en Sacrarum cantionum. Two madrigals and a four-part song by him on Dutch texts are also known from other sources. The latter (Gij meijskens die vander comenscap sijt) was published in 1572 by the Antwerp printer Petrus Phalesius in his anthology of Dutch songs, the Duijtsch musijck boeck.

Notes and References

1. Book: Eisenbichler . Konrad . The Sword and the Pen Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena . 2012 . University of Notre Dame Press . 9780268078652 . 11 December 2021.
2. Book: Sala . Massimiliano . Sutcliffe . W. Dean . Domenico Scarlatti Adventures Essays to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Death . 2008 . UT Orpheus . 9788881094622 . 102 . 11 December 2021.
3. Book: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG . 2006 . Basel . 3-7618-1136-5 . Finscher . Ludwig .
4. Book: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, herausgegeben von Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition Volume 25 . 2001 . McMillan Publishers . London . 0-333-60800-3.
5. Book: American Institute of Musicology . Carapetyan . Armen . Musica Disciplina A Yearbook of the History of Music . 1994 . American Institute of Musicology . 148 . 11 December 2021.