Pieter Bustijn (1649-1722) - Suitte (VI) pour le Clavessin (c.1712)
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Composer: Pieter Bustijn (1649-1722)
Work: Suitte (VI) pour le Clavessin (c.1712)
Performers: Jаcquеs Ogg (clavecin)
Painting: Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744) - Waterpartij met beelden en gebouwen in een park
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Pieter (Pierre) Bustijn [Bustyn, Bustin, Bystyn]
(Middelburg?, bap. 25 July 1649 - bur. Middelburg, 22 November 1729)
Dutch organist, carillonneur and composer. His family were French-speaking. He may have studied with Remigius Schrijver (?-1681), a Middelburg organist; he completed the music for Uitbreidinge over het Bouk der Psalmen (3vv, bc; Middelburg, 1682; lost), begun by Schrijver, who had died before completion of the work. In 1681 Bustijn was appointed organist of the Nieuwe Kerk, and carillonneur of the abbey bell tower in Middelburg. He served as organ adviser in Middelburg and Goes and may have been director of the Middelburg collegium musicum during the period 1681-1729. In 1712 the carillon of the Middleburg abbey tower was destroyed; its replacement, constructed by the famous bellfounders Jan Albert de Grave and Claas Noorden of Amsterdam in 1714, was inspected by Bustijn and Abraham de Coup, organist of the Walloon church and carillonneur of the market bell-tower, and, according to various reports, was of outstanding quality. Relatively little Dutch keyboard music of the time has survived. Bustijn’s IX suittes pour le clavessin (Amsterdam, c1712/R in Exempla Musica Zelandica, i (Middelburg, 1992 [incl. biographical information]); 3 ed. in EMN, i, Amsterdam, 1964) are of great importance to the history of the genre in the Netherlands. Their balanced arrangement by key is reminiscent of the use of symmetrical cycles culminating in the art of Bach. Their style points to that of the keyboard works of Bach and Handel, as well as showing some French influence. The suites were known to members of Bach’s circle: no.VIII (in A), in J.L. Krebs’s hand, can be found in an anthology of keyboard music (D-Bsb) compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther, who also mentions the works in his Musicalisches Lexicon. #ClassicalMusic