Erik Bosgraaf performs ‘Pavane de Spanje’ by Pieter de Vois

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Pieter de Vois (1580/81-1654), the blind organist and carillonist of the St.-Jacobskerk in The Hague, had been a student of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. After Sweelincks death in 1621, De Vois was invited to succeed the ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’ at the Oude Kerk, but after a salary raise he decided to stay in The Hague. None of his organ works have been preserved, but some pieces for soprano recorder or another melody instrument have.
The monophonic variations on ‘Pavane de Spanje’, from ‘Der goden fluit-hemel’ (The gods’ recorder heaven, Amsterdam 1644), are particularly interesting because here he shows himself to be a true heir of Sweelinck, as the musicologist Thiemo Wind has demonstrated (see literature). From Sweelinck’s hand, keyboard variations on the same ‘Pavana Hispanica’ have survived. Sweelinck altered the end of the common melody version to allow for some polyphonic treatment (imitation), mirrored in this example by De Vois. The presentation of the theme does follow the common version, but in the variations De Vois obeys what he learned from Sweelinck.
Thanks to this monophonic composition we can date Sweelinck’s composition before 1 November 1604, when De Vois became organist in The Hague. By then his studies with Sweelinck were over.
Video by Daria Vinogradova, audio recorded by Dirk Fischer
🔹 Instrument:
This piece is played on an alto ‘Ganassi’ recorder in F (wide bore) by Monika Musch.
🔹Edition used: The Gods’ Recorder Heaven, ed. Thiemo Wind (XYZ, 2010).
🔹Literature:
Thiemo Wind, ‘Jacob van Eyck and the Others - Dutch Solo Repertoire for Recorder in the Golden Age’ (Utrecht: KVNM, 2011), 514-38.
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