Scheidemann: Organ Works, Vol. 5

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Release Date: 08 January 2004

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Composer/Series: SCHEIDEMANN

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Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663)Organ Works, Vol. 5Born in about 1595 in Wohrden in Holstein, where hisfather, a native of Hamburg, had recently beenappointed organist, Heinrich Scheidemann studiedbetween 1611 and 1614 with Sweelinck in Amsterdam.His father had moved from Wohrden by 1604 to takethe position of organist at the Catharinenkirche inHamburg, and the church supported his son's study,In der Hoffnung, dass er ein braver K??nstler unddereinst ihr Org. werden sollte (in the hope that hemight become a fine artist and some day their organist).When his studies in Amsterdam came to an endSweelinck wrote a farewell canon for him, with thededication Ter eeren des vromen Jongkmans HenderichScheijtman, van Hamborgh, is dit geschreven bij mij,Jan P. Sweelinck, organist tot Amsterdam, op den12den Novemb. 1614 (For the worthy young manHeinrich Scheidemann of Hamburg this is written byme, Jan P.Sweelinck, organist of Amsterdam, on 12thNovember 1614). In the late 1620s, and at least by1629, he succeeded his father as organist at theCatharinenkirche, and in 1633 was appointed clerk ofthe church, marrying in the following year the daughterof a doctor.During his years at Hamburg Scheidemannestablished himself as an important figure in the worldof North German organ music. His pupils includedJ.A.Reincken, later his assistant and successor, WernerFabricius, who became organist at the Nikolaikirche inLeipzig, Wolfgang Wessnitzer of Celle, Jakob Lorentzof the Waisenhaus in Hamburg, and others ofcontemporary distinction. He served as a consultant onthe construction of new instruments in Brunswick,L??beck, Bremen and elsewhere, and saw to theenlargement of his own instrument at theCatharinenkirche by the organ-builder GottfriedFritzsche, with the addition of a Brustwerk to make afour-manual instrument with the existing Hauptwerk,R??ckpositiv, and Oberwerk, pedals and 56 stops. Hedied during an epidemic of the plague in Hamburg in1663, and his widow, in recognition of her husband'sservices, received a pension from the city.Scheidemann's important Magnificat settings werediscovered in 1955 by Gustav Fock in a book of organtablatures at Clausthal-Zellerfeld. The four organ verseswere to be played at Vespers between the sung verses ofthe canticle, seemingly, in Hamburg tradition, replacingthe third, fifth, seventh and ninth of these.Scheidemann's cycle of Magnificat verses uses theeight psalm tones, two of which are here included. TheMagnificat IV Toni suggests the psalm tone in theopening of the first versus, leaving the formal entry ofthe chant to the pedals. This is elaborated in theextended second versus, a chorale fantasia, withrelatively ornate parts, and echo effects as it proceeds.The third versus, a chorale ricercare, is plainer intexture, and the setting ends with a fourth versus for themanuals only. Here the right hand introduces the psalmtone, adding, also with the left hand, a runningcounterpoint, in a three-part texture.The additional second versio
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