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Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 1572
- Died
- 1630
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Sole extant work
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- 84
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franco-flemishfrenchrenaissanceClassicalearly baroque
Géry de Ghersem (also Géry Gersem) (1573 to 1575 – 25 May 1630) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active both in Spain at the court of Philip II and Philip III, and in his native Netherlands. He was a prolific and highly regarded composer at the time, but little of his work survives, almost all having been destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake and fire of 1755. Ghersem was born in Tournai, and received his boyhood musical training there, possibly under the direction of composer
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Tournai
- Place of death
- Tournai
- Occupation
- chapelmaster
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Student of
- George de La Hèle
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- date of death
- 1630-05-25
- date of birth
- 1573-00-00
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