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Abraham van den Kerckhoven

Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618–c. 1701) was a Flemish organist and composer active in Brussels, long associated with Saint Catherine’s Church and with the Habsburg court.

His surviving music is almost entirely for organ: versets, fantasies, fugues, preludes and mass settings that show fluent counterpoint and a mix of Italian, French and northern German manners. A Fantasia is heard on A Baroque Collection (MD 3036).

Compositions by Abraham van den Kerckhoven appear on

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A Baroque Collection

Douglas Lawrence plays Baroque organ masterworks on Jürgen Ahrend’s acclaimed instrument in Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall, a programme spanning Zipoli to Buxtehude.

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