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Gheerkin De Hondt
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Gheerkin de Hondt (born around 1490; died after 1547) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. No information has been passed on about the origin, early days and education of Gheerkin de Hondt. His first verifiable activity took place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft, where Gheerkin from the 1st August 1530 to February 1532 as a singing master. From 1532 to 1539, he carried out the same activity at the church of St. Jacob in Bruges; there he was also a member of the sacramentary guild. In September 1539, Gheerkin was recruited by the Marian Brotherhood (Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap) in 's-Hertogenbosch as a singmaster; there he entered his service on the 31st. December 1539. It was a community in the tradition of the Roman temple brotherhoods that employed its own poets and composers for their rites and chants. In the same function as a singing master, he also worked on the pen there. In 1541 and 1542, the composer made trips to Amsterdam and Leiden, among other things, to recruit new singers. In 1547, he was accused that he and his wife had neglected the choir boys living in their house, after which he was dismissed. He left ’s-Hertogenbosch on the 2nd. October 1547 and moved north with one of these choir boys to the Frisian part of the Netherlands. His trail is lost there. While the assignment of Gheerkin's sacred works to the person of the composer is still relatively simple, this is problematic for secular works, because several pieces are handed do
