Canon
Where to start with Sweelinck
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
KeyboardAch Gott vom Himmel sieh darein
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VocalAve maris stella, SwWV 193
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ChamberPsalm 23 for lute
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KeyboardAllein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, 4 chorale variations
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KeyboardAlmande Chapelle, for keyboard
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VocalBeatus qui soli Deo confidit, SwWV 194
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VocalCanciones Sacrae, for 5 voices and continuo
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KeyboardCapriccio in A minor, for organ
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VocalChantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle, chantez, ô terre, for 4 voices
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KeyboardDes boosdoenders wille seer quaet, variations
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VocalDiligam te Domine a8, SwWV 191
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VocalDonnez au Seigneur gloire, for 5 voices
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KeyboardEcho Fantasia for organ no. 2 in D minor, SwWV 261
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KeyboardEcho Fantasia in A minor
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KeyboardEcho Fantasia in Dorian
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Sweelinck's catalogueMost Popular
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Fantasia Chromatica
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Echo Fantasia in A minor
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Mein junges Leben hat ein End (keyboard variations)
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Est-ce Mars (variations)
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Psalm settings (keyboard)
Most Acclaimed
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Fantasia Chromatica
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Toccatas (complete)
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Keyboard Fantasias (complete)
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Psalmorum Davidis (vocal)
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Variations on English virginalist pieces
Most Weird
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Fantasia Chromaticaa descending chromatic scale woven throughout all voices — unlike anything in his period; influenced an entire school of North German organists
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Echo Fantasy in A minorthe right hand answers the left in a different register — imitating an echo; structurally playful and unusual
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Chromatic Fantasiahis most extreme harmonic experiment
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Under the Green Linden Tree (variations)
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Fantasia in D minorthe most harmonically adventurous of his fantasias
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 53
- Keyboard
- Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein
- Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, 4 chorale variations
- Almande Chapelle, for keyboard
- Capriccio in A minor, for organ
- Des boosdoenders wille seer quaet, variations
- Echo Fantasia for organ no. 2 in D minor, SwWV 261
- Echo Fantasia in A minor
- Echo Fantasia in Dorian
- Echo Fantasia no. 1 in C
- Echo Fantasia no. 1 in D minor
- Engelse fortuin, SwWV 320, "Von der Fortuna werd ich getrieben; Fortune my Foe"
- Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, chorale variations
- Est-ce Mars, variations for keyboard, SwWV 321
- Fantasia Chromatica in Dorian, SwWV 258
- Fantasia Ut re mi fa sol la, for keyboard, SwWV 263
- Fantasia no. 2 in G minor
- Fantasia no. 3 in F, "Fantasia mit Bindungen"
- Fantazia op de Fuga van M: Jan Pieters, Fecit Dr. Bull 1621
- Hexachord Fantasia
- Ik heb den Heer lief, variations
- Mein junges Leben hat ein End, SwWV 324, variations
- More Palatino, "Almand Gratie"
- Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein, chorale variations
- O mijn God, wilt mij nu bevrijden, variations
- Onder een linde groen, SwWV 325, variations
- Paduana Lachrimae collorirt, for organ
- Pavana Hispanica
- Poolse almande, "Soll es sein"
- Praeludium Toccata in A minor
- Puer nobis nascitur, variations
- Ricercar in Aeolian mode, SwWV 280
- Toccata Noni Toni, SwWV 297
- Toccata for keyboard no. 1 in C
- Toccata in Dorian mode, SwWV 286
- Toccata no. 1 in A minor
- Toccata no. 2 in C
- Toccata no. 2 in D minor
- Toccata no. 2 in G
- Wij geloven in eenen God alleen, chorale variations for organ, SwWV 316
- Vocal
- Ave maris stella, SwWV 193
- Beatus qui soli Deo confidit, SwWV 194
- Canciones Sacrae, for 5 voices and continuo
- Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle, chantez, ô terre, for 4 voices
- Diligam te Domine a8, SwWV 191
- Donnez au Seigneur gloire, for 5 voices
- Felix auspiciis dies secondis, SwWV 192a
- Resveillez-vous, chacun fidèle, for chorus
- Soll es sein, 8 verses
- Tu as esté, Seigneur, nostre retraicte for 4 voices
- Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas, SwWV 199
- Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas, SwWV 200
- Chamber
- Psalm 23 for lute
- Psalm 5, for lute