Pieter Kersbergen (1810-1899) (II)
by Frits Zwart |Het ORGEL |Year 122 |(2026) |Issue 3| Categorie No category
Carel Jacobus Behr, Carel Jacobus Behr, Portrait of Johan Kethel (1860–1908), 1877 Oil on panel. Collection of Museum Prinsenhof Delft. The portrait dates from the period when Kethel, then aged seventeen, was living at the Gereformeerd Weeshuis (Reformed Orphanage) in Delft and studying at the Royal School of Music in The Hague
Activities in Delft, succeeded by Johan Kethel
In the previous instalment I wrote about Pieter Kersbergen and the old organs that have disappeared from Delft. Successively, Kersbergen was organist of the Waalse Kerk (Walloon Church), the Oude Kerk and the Nieuwe Kerk.[1] In 1890 he celebrated sixty years as organist of the Dutch Reformed congregation. He faithfully fulfilled his duties as organist and in 1893 was granted honourable retirement. On various occasions it was noted with satisfaction that he had never been absent through illness.