Gisbert Steenwick

Gisbert Steenwick (also Gijsbert) (baptized 6 January 1642 – buried 20 August 1679) was a Dutch composer, organist, and carillonneur.

[1] Today Steenwick is known for a few keyboard pieces contained in a manuscript he compiled before 1674 for a pupil, Anna Maria van Eyl, daughter of an Arnhem patrician.

Among the securely attributed works are arrangements of popular songs such as More Palatino, Puer natus in Bethleem, and Heiligh saligh Bethlehem, and dances (sarabandes, allemandes) with variations.

Opinions differ on the quality of Steenwick's writing: while some scholars have noted a sophisticated variation technique,[1][2] others have dismissed it as quite ordinary.

[3] Some pieces of the collection (which also includes works by the otherwise unknown Georg Berff)[3] display North German influence.

The Bovenkerk in Kampen , where Steenwick worked at the end of his life