Johannes Schenck

Johannes Schenck (or Johan Schenk,[1] 3 June 1660–after 1712) was a Dutch musician and composer.

Schenck was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Catholic hidden church.

His compositions included music for a Dutch Singspiel, Bacchus, Ceres en Venus, which can claim to be the first opera in Dutch, and from which songs were published in 1687, as well as works for the viola da gamba.

Around 1696 he accepted an appointment to the court of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf.

These and further manuscripts (in GB-DRc, GB-Ob, D-Wd, S-Ska) contain also copies of the aforesaid printed editions.