Sweelinck: Fantasia Chromatica /

Monumenta Musica Neerlandica: Sweelinck’s Fantasia Chromatica played by ernst stolz on an Italian style harpsichord in meantone tuning Sweelinck was born in Deventer (NL), in 1562, as the eldest son of Peter Swybbertszoon and Elske Jansdochter Sweeling. His mother’s father, was a “chirurgyn“. a well known doctor, perhaps that’s why he chosed her family name. The family moved to Amsterdam, where from about 1564 Swybbertszoon served as organist of the Oude Kerk. Jan Pieterszoon must have received first