Andreas Düben (1597 – 7 July 1662) was a

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composer and

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, and father of

Gustaf Düben Gustaf Düben (also spelt Gustav) (; 1624/1628December 19, 1690) was a Swedish organist and composer. Early life Born into the Düben family, in the 1620s in Stockholm, Sweden, he was the son of the German-born Andreas Düben, an organist, and ...

. He was born near

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and was admitted to

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in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( ; April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard comp ...

from 1614 until 1620 when he secured a position as organist in the Swedish court orchestra in

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. He was appointed conductor of that same group in 1640. In addition to his activities at court, he served as organist of the German Church (from 1625), and

Storkyrkan Storkyrkan (, ), also called Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of Saint Nicholas), is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and ...

(from 1649/50). His assistant at the German Church was Wilhelm Karges. His surviving works include two choral works, a number of instrumental dances, and a handful of organ works.

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1597 births 1662 deaths 17th-century classical composers 17th-century Swedish musicians Swedish Baroque composers Swedish classical composers Swedish male classical composers Swedish people of German descent 17th-century male musicians

Andreas Andreas () is a name derived from the Greek noun ἀνήρ ''anēr'', with genitive ἀνδρός ''andros'', which means "man". See the article on Andrew for more information. The Scandinavian name is earliest attested as antreos in a runeston ...

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