Name Gysbert Japiks | Role Writer | |
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Died 1666, Bolsward, Netherlands | ||
Gysbert Japiks or Japicx or Japix (1603–1666) was a Frisian writer, poet, schoolmaster, and cantor.
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Life
Japiks was born in Bolsward, Friesland. He admired the Latin poets Horace and Ovid, but was also an enthusiast for his own West Frisian memmetaal, or mother tongue. His work was the most notable in that language of his day and had the effect of elevating Frisian to literary status. The poems of Japiks were published in Friessche Tjerne (1640) and also posthumously in Fryske Rijmlerye (1668).
Songs
Japiks's Frisian songs were contrafacta to well-known tunes by composers such as Goudimel, Bourgeois, and Pierre Guédron. A selection from them was recorded by Frisian singers and Camerata Trajectina in 2003.
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