Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Matthias van den Gheyn: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born April 7, 1721 • Belgium
Died June 22, 1785 (aged 64) • Leuven • Belgium
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer
default image
Antonio de Cabezón
Spanish composer
default image
Orlando Gibbons
English composer
default image
John Bull
English composer
default image
Andrea Gabrieli
Italian composer
default image
Johann Jakob Froberger
German composer
default image
Antonio Soler
Spanish composer
default image
Johann Kuhnau
German composer
default image
Louis-Nicholas Clérambault
French musician
default image
Georg Böhm
German composer
default image
William Croft
English musician
default image
Louis-Claude Daquin
French composer
default image
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles
Spanish composer
default image
Thomas Tomkins
English composer and organist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer