Jan Gerard Palm

Jan Gerard Palm was a composer from Curaçao.

Biography

Palm was born in Curaçao and directed several music ensembles at a young age. In 1859, he was appointed as music director of the Citizen's Guard Orchestra in Curaçao. Palm played multiple musical instruments, including the piano, organ, lute, clarinet, flute, and mandolin. As an organist, Palm played for many years in the Jewish synagogues, Emanu-El and Mikvé Israel, the Protestant Fort Amsterdam Church, and the Lodge Igualdad in Curaçao. He regularly contributed to Notas y Letras, a periodical published in Curaçao between 1886 and 1888 with subscribers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Palm died on December 13, 1906, at 75 years old. His descendants include the musicians and composers Rudolph Palm, John Palm, Toni Palm, Jacobo Palm, Albert Palm, Edgar Palm, and Robert Rojer.