Theodor Evertz
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Theodor Evertz was a Franco-Flemish composer
Franco-Flemish School
In music, the Franco-Flemish School or more precisely the Netherlandish School refers, somewhat imprecisely, to the style of polyphonic vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, and to the composers who wrote it...

 from the Renaissance
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Life and work

Little is known about Evertz.

Three of his Dutch
Dutch language
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 song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

s are preserved in the anthology of Dutch songs, Dat ierste boeck vanden nieuwe Duijtsche liedekens, published by Jacob Baethen in Maastricht
Maastricht
Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...

 in 1554 :
  • O Venus jent aensiet toch mijn torment (O Venus, tormentor, have pity on me)
  • Ontwaect van slaep nu wij ghij sijt (Awake, who ever you are)
  • Schoen lief ic mach wel claeghen (My beloved, it cries to heaven)


No complete set of parts of Jacob Baethen’s anthology has yet been retrieved (the soprano voice is missing), but one of the songs for four voices has been published in Petrus Phalesius’s Een Duijtsch musijck boeck in 1572, of which at least one complete copy has survived.

Sources

  • The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, London
    London
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    , 2001
  • Jan Willem Bonda, De meerstemmige Nederlandse liederen van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw. Hilversum
    Hilversum
    is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...

    , Verloren, 1996. ISBN 90-6550-545-8
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