Pieter Bustijn (1649-1722)
- Suitte (VI) pour le Clavessin (c.1712)
Performers: Jаcquеs Ogg (clavecin)
Further info: Pieter Bustijn (1649-1722) - Suites for harpsichord
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Dutch organist, carillonneur and composer. His family were
French-speaking. He may have studied with Remigius Schrijver (?-1681), a
Middelburg organist; he completed the music for Uitbreidinge over het
Bouk der Psalmen (3vv, bc; Middelburg, 1682; lost), begun by Schrijver,
who had died before completion of the work. In 1681 Bustijn was
appointed organist of the Nieuwe Kerk, and carillonneur of the abbey
bell tower in Middelburg. He served as organ adviser in Middelburg and
Goes and may have been director of the Middelburg collegium musicum
during the period 1681-1729. In 1712 the carillon of the Middleburg
abbey tower was destroyed; its replacement, constructed by the famous
bellfounders Jan Albert de Grave and Claas Noorden of Amsterdam in 1714,
was inspected by Bustijn and Abraham de Coup, organist of the Walloon
church and carillonneur of the market bell-tower, and, according to
various reports, was of outstanding quality. Relatively little Dutch
keyboard music of the time has survived. Bustijn’s IX suittes pour le
clavessin (Amsterdam, c1712/R in Exempla Musica Zelandica, i
(Middelburg, 1992 [incl. biographical information]); 3 ed. in EMN, i,
Amsterdam, 1964) are of great importance to the history of the genre in
the Netherlands. Their balanced arrangement by key is reminiscent of the
use of symmetrical cycles culminating in the art of Bach. Their style
points to that of the keyboard works of Bach and Handel, as well as
showing some French influence. The suites were known to members of
Bach’s circle: no.VIII (in A), in J.L. Krebs’s hand, can be found in an
anthology of keyboard music (D-Bsb) compiled by Johann Gottfried
Walther, who also mentions the works in his Musicalisches Lexicon.
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