Herman Hollanders

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Herman Hollanders (c.1595-c.1640) was a Dutch composer who worked in the transitional period between the renaissance and the Baroque. He was married to Clara Joosten, with whom he had seven children, all baptised in Breda. He was vicar of the chapter of Eindhoven, and acted as schoolmaster and organist of the church of St Catherine in Eindhoven from 1618 to 1623. He also worked as organist in Ekeren (now in Belgium), and was choirmaster of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Breda between 1628 and 1637. The Catholic town of Breda became Protestant after it was retaken from the Spanish by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, during the Dutch War of Independence; many clerics and laypeople fled to the Spanish Netherlands, and Hollanders probably went with them. Nothing more is known of him after that point. Two sets of Hollanders' music have survived, in the library of the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck, near Boxmeer. They contain approximately fifty works, of which a part is not complete. One set is called Parnassus ecclesiasticus (1631), and includes work for one to four voices with basso continuo and two eight-part pieces for four voices and four strings with basso continuo. The other is called Jubilus filiorum Dei (1634) and contains eight solo-motets for tenor, and also a number of incomplete works. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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