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Jan Rijspoort was a Flemish composer who was active at the end of Renaissance and beginning of the early Baroque period. He worked in the Spanish Netherlands at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. Very little is known about his life.

The songs collected in the Morale Spreeckwoorden

This collection was published in 1617 by the Antwerp publisher Phalesius. A complete copy of this work, containing polyphonic Dutch songs, has yet to be discovered.

References

1. Eugeen Schreurs, Het Nederlandse polyfone lied (The Dutch Polyphonic Song), published on the occasion of a homonymous set of radio broadcasts by the Flemish Radio and Television Broadcast Company, the BRT, Alamire ed., Peer, 1986, ISBN 90-6853-018-6, p.82
2. Jan Willem Bonda, De Nederlandse meerstemmige liederen van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw (The Dutch Polyphonic Songs of The 15th and 16th centuries), Hilversum, Verloren, 1996. ISBN 90-6550-545-8, p. 152-153

External links

• (in French) Belgian composers
• (in English) Composers’ Biographies on Dolmetsch.com

• Renaissance composers
• Flemish Baroque composers
• Musicians from the Spanish Netherlands
• 16th-century composers from the Holy Roman Empire
• 17th-century composers from the Holy Roman Empire
• Male classical composers