Artist Info: Georg Berff

Georg (Jurriën/Jurrien) Berff (dates often given as 1641–1691) was a Dutch organist active in Deventer, documented in organist lists for the city’s principal church (Grote Kerk/Lebuïnuskerk) in the later 17th century. His surviving music is tiny but distinctive: two short keyboard pieces, Ballet (an aria with variations) and La Princesse, both preserved in the Klavierboek Anna Maria van Eijl (c. 1671), a manuscript compilation that also transmits works by Gisbert Steenwick and other contemporaries. [read more...]