Dance – Joachim van den Hove, 1567-1620 (guitar sheet music)

Joachim van den Hove (1567 – 1620) was a Flemish lutenist and composer. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French and English vocal and instrumental music, and of Flemish folk music. Van den Hove disputes with Emmanuel Adriaenssen and Nicolas Vallet the distinction of being the most important representative of 17th century Dutch lute music.

Van den Hove was born in Antwerp, and for the greater part of his life he lived in Leiden. There he was a lutenist and a lute teacher. His most famous pupils were the young Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. From 1613 until 1616 van den Hove travelled around France and Italy, after which he moved to The Hague, where he went bankrupt and died in 1620.

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