Theodor Evertz Explained

Theodor Evertz (fl. c. 1554) was a Franco-Flemish composer from the Renaissance.

Life and work

Little is known about Evertz.

Three of his Dutch songs are preserved in the anthology of Dutch songs,, published by Jacob Bathen in Maastricht in 1554:

• (O Venus, tormentor, have pity on me)
• (Awake, who ever you are)
• (My beloved, it cries to heaven)

No complete set of parts of Jacob Bathen's anthology has yet been retrieved (the soprano voice is missing), but one of the songs for four voices has been published in Petrus Phalesius's in 1572, of which at least one complete copy has survived.

Sources

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, London, 2001
• Jan Willem Bonda, De meerstemmige Nederlandse liederen van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw. Hilversum, Verloren, 1996.