Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music

Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music The forgotten figure of a 17th-century Dutch recorder virtuoso, illuminated by a unique synthesis of art history, scholarship and modern musicianship. Der Fluyten Lust-hof (The Recorder’s Pleasure Garden, or Garden of Delights) is a famous collection of music for recorder composed by Jacob van Eyck and published in Amsterdam by Paulus Matthijsz. The same Matthijsz published a parallel recorder edition in 1644 that he dedicated to a certain Adriana vanden Bergh: Der goden fluit-hemel (The Gods’ Recorder Heaven). Her identity remained obscure for centuries, until the musicologist Thiemo Wind discovered that she was portrayed as the muse Euterpe by the painter Jacob Backer, an illustrious contemporary of Rembrandt. Composers: Cornelis Thymanszoon Padbrué, Constantijn Huygens, Christiaen Herwich, Cornelis Jansz Helmbreecker, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Jacob Van Eyck, Johann Schop, Louis Constantin, Marco Uccellini, Nicolaes a Kempis, Pieter de