Eyck, Jacob van
Eyck, Jacob van
Eyck, Jacob van, Dutch carillonist, recorder player, teacher, and composer; b. c. 1589; d. Utrecht, March 26, 1657. He became carillonist in Utrecht in 1625. Eyck was the first to demonstrate that a bell’s purity of sound is a direct consequence of its shape. He publ. the recorder collections Euterpe oft Speel-goddine (Amsterdam, 1644; 2nd ed., aug., 1649, as Der fluyten lust-hof, I) and Der fluyten lust-hof, II (Amsterdam, 1646), both of which were ed. by G. Vellekeep (Amsterdam, 1957–58).
Bibliography
R. van Baak Griggioen, /. v. E.’s “Der Fluyten Lusthof (1644-c. 1655) (Utrecht, 1991).
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