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Composer: Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c.1618-1702)
Work: Missa Duplex
Performers: Jozef SIuys (1936-2015, organ); CapeIIa Sancti MichaeIis
Painting: Pieter Neefs (c.1578-c.1660) - De Dominicanerkerk te Antwerpen van binnen gezien (1636)
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Abraham van den Kerckhoven [Kerchoven, van Kerckhove]
(Malines?, c.1618 - Brussels, 1702)
Flemish composer and organist. The Kerckhoven family was active in Brussels from the late 16th to the mid-18th century; several of its members served at the royal chapel. Abraham moved to Brussels as a young man; from 1633 (a date that invalidates the hitherto accepted year of his birth, 1627) he was organist of Ste Catherine. On the departure of Johann Kaspar Kerll in 1648 he replaced him as organist in the domestic music of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries. In 1656 he received four months’ wages from the royal chapel, and in 1659 he was the well-paid first organist there. He is recorded in documents up to 1673 as holding this post and a reference to him also occurs in 1684. In the records of his funeral service at Ste Catherine he is described only as organist of that church. He was buried on 9 January 1702. Many of Kerckhoven’s works, which are all for organ, are based on the ricercare technique inherited from the keyboard composers of the early 17th century. His imaginative treatment of themes is reminiscent of that of Peeter Cornet. In the longer fantasies and fugues, however, his harmonic and formal developments are more forward-looking. Some of his works contain indications of registration, but unfortunately almost nothing is known of the organs on which he played at the court and at Ste Catherine.
28 сен 2024
