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unusual facts about Grote kerk



Jan Baptist Xavery

Stylistically, Xavery was influenced at the start of his career by Daniel Marot; later, his style became more elaborate, in works such as the Allegory of Faith of 1735-9, in the Grote Kerk of Haarlem.

Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans

In 1840 he became organist at the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam, and between 1858-1878 he was cityorganist at the Grote Kerk in Haarlem.

St. Lambert's Cathedral, Liège

The sandstone towers that characterised the west front were closely related to those of the cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula in Brussels, and of the Grote Kerk in Breda, in the Netherlands, as well as of the Basilica of Our Lady in Tongeren.


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Hendrik Speuy

From 1595 he was organist of the Grote Kerk and Augustijnen Kerk in Dordrecht.

Jean Taffin

From 1573 he returned to the Netherlands where he became court chaplain of the stadholder William the Silent, and presided over his marriage on 15 July, 1575 to Charlotte de Bourbon, in the Grote Kerk, Den Briel.

Nicolaes Boddingius

In the Brouwerskapel of the "Grote Kerk", also named St. Bavochurch, in Haarlem, hangs a plaque with inscriptions of names of ministers who served the church since the Reformation.

Schreck Ensemble

Utrecht; the Grote Kerk, Groningen; Dodorama, Rotterdam; the Ruïne Kerk, Bergen, North Holland; Theater Frascati, Amsterdam; Music Centre Frits Philips, Eindhoven; Theatre Kikker, Utrecht; Theatre Provadja, Alkmaar; the Music Centre, IJsbreker, Amsterdam; the Stedelijk Museum for Modern Art.