Johannes Schenck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johannes Schenck

Dutch musician and composer

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1660

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1712

Profession: composer, viol player

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Johannes Schenck (or Johan Schenk, 3 June 1660–after 1712) was a Dutch musician and composer. Schenck was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Catholic hidden church.
He became a renowned virtuoso viola da gamba player. 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 series of highly virtuous works for the viola da gamba which gave an important impulse to the development of this instrument.
Around 1696 he accepted an appointment to the court of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf.
After Johann Wilhelm's death in 1716, the electoral court moved to Mannheim. There is some uncertainty about the date of Schenck's death as there is no mention found in the Düsseldorf Protestant church records or parish and cemetery records in Amsterdam.
His last known published work appeared in 1712.
He is no longer mentioned in the list of court musicians compiled in 1717.



Alternative names	Constantin Netscher
Description	Dutch painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	16 December 1668 (baptised)	27 March 1723 (buried)
Location of birth/death	The Hague	The Hague
Work period	from 1685 until 1723 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1685-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	The Hague
Authority control	: Q5163689 VIAF: 74961619 ISNI: 0000 0000 6688 9827 ULAN: 500006996 WGA: NETSCHER, Constantijn DBNL: nets008