Philippe van Wichel

Philippe van Wichel (also Philippus van Wicchel ; * baptized February 16, 1614 in Brussels ; † buried July 8, 1675 there ) was a Dutch-Belgian composer , violinist and zinc player in the Spanish Netherlands .

Life

Philippe Van Wichel began his musical career, like other members of his family, in the Brussels “Sint Job Musicians' Guild” . From 1631 to 1637 he was a Zinkenist at the Church of St. Gorik. After that, until his death, he was an instrumentist and violinist in the Brussels court orchestra, in which numerous Italian musicians also worked. For this period he is on the court's payrolls with a salary of 245 guilders. As a member of the court orchestra, Johann Caspar von Kerll was one of the Kapellmeisters under whom van Wichel worked. In the meantime he played several times as an extraordinary in the personal chamber music of the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Leopold Wilhelm of Austria .

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In 1678, three years after his death, Van Wichel's heirs published a volume of early Baroque violin sonatas for several voices under the title "Fascilus dulcedinis unius, duorum, trium, quatuor et quinque instrumentorum" Opusculum Primum (Op. 1). This volume contains seven sonatas for one, 2, 3, 4, 5 violins or prongs with basso continuo and a " Ciacogna " for 2 violins and Bc. Three further sonatas can be found in the Rost Codex in the French National Library. The sonatas show the influence of the early Baroque Italian style by Giovanni Battista Buonamente or Maurizio Cazzati .

literature

• Piet Stryckers: Ph. Van Wichel (1614-1675), violist aan de Hof te Brussel, en zijn Fasiculus Dulcedinis , dissertation, KUL 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7 , (French)