Hendrik Focking (1747-1796) - Sonata pour la flûte traverse

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Composer: Hendrik Focking (1747-1796)
Work: Sonata in D-Dur des 'VI Sonates pour la flûte traverse solo avec une basse continuo ... œuvre première'
Performers: Wilbert Hazelzet (traverso); Amsterdams Barok Ensemble

Drawing: Thomas Bowles (c.1712-1767) - A View of the Stadt House, New Church, Weighing House, and the adjacent Buildings at Amsterdam
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2sv69Y9

Further info: https://www.discogs.com/release/22876460
Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/22THNlt2A2DxpMRx2uZmsF

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Hendrik Focking
(Danzig, 17 August 1747 - Amsterdam, 7 April 1796)

Dutch composer, organist and carillonneur. His parents were Mennonites from Haarlem who lived in Danzig from 1739 to 1752, when they moved to Amsterdam. He was blind, and it may be assumed that he received his musical instruction from the blind organist Jacob Potholt. From 1769 until his death he was carillonneur at the Oude Kerk and the Regulierstoren (now Munttoren), Amsterdam. In 1780 he became organist of one of the Mennonite communities in Amsterdam, the one usually called ‘bij het Lam en bij de Toren’, after the locations of its churches. Focking taught the well-known blind Amsterdam organist and carillonneur Daniël Brachthuyzer (1779-1832). His only known compositions are the 'VI sonates pour le flute traverse solo, avec une basse continuo, oeuvre première'. They follow the pattern of the mid-18th-century three-movement solo sonata and their style resembles that of North German composers. They were published privately by the composer, lack a dedication and are undated. His son Cornelis Focking (1770-?) was also an organist.