This Dutch keyboard musician, composer and teacher, broadly contemporary with Shakespeare, is credited with creating and writing down the first fugues, which also included fully independent contrapuntal writing for the pedals ~ all of which were features that Bach would perfect around a century later, in the high Baroque period. His own output includes charming variations on folk-tunes such as Under a Green Lime-Tree and My Young LIfe hath its Ending.Who was he?

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This Dutch keyboard musician, composer and teacher, broadly contemporary with Shakespeare, is credited with creating and writing down the first fugues, which also included fully independent contrapuntal writing for the pedals ~ all of which were features that Bach would perfect around a century later, in the high Baroque period. His own output includes charming variations on folk-tunes such as <i>Under a Green Lime-Tree</i> and <i>My Young LIfe hath its Ending</i>.<br>Who was he?