Emmanuel Adriaenssen

In 1595 he took part in the liberation of the neighboring town of Lier, which had been occupied by troops of the Dutch Republic.

[4] Adriaenssen became a well-off burgher who frequented the local notables including probably from the nobility, who valued his virtuosity on the lute.

He gained an international reputation thanks to his publications of lute music which found their way into the libraries of illustrious people, such as Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Constantijn Huygens, King John IV of Portugal and Cardinal Mazarin.

As a teacher, he played an important role because of the outstanding tablatures that he published and because he was the initiator of an Antwerp lute school whose pupils included, in all likelihood, Denss and Joachim van den Hove.

His wife remarried and emigrated later to Leiden in the Dutch Republic taking her youngest son Niclaes with her.

The Neapolitan songs, with their parallel fifths (which not required in Italian text, so it is a question here of a style marker) have a more rustic character.