Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, O Ewigkeit, du Freuden Wort | Secrets of Organ Playing Challenge, Week 146

What better way than to start my participation in the weekly challenge than with something totally new? Well, at least new for me, as until recently I had never played something from Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718 – 1795) was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. Little is known of Marpurg's early life. According to various sources, he studied "philosophy" and music. In 1746, he travelled to Paris, where he became acquainted with important intellectual luminaries, such as the writer and philosopher Voltaire, the mathematician d'Alembert and the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.

After 1746, he returned to Berlin where he was more or less independent. In 1760, he received an appointment to the Royal Prussian Lotteries, whose director he became in 1763.

Marpurg's compositions consist largely of strophic songs of the kind composed in north Germany in the mid-18th century. He was very active as a compiler and editor of such songs and of keyboard works suited to amateur performers. Most of his surviving compositions appear in these collections; they are competent but not outstanding. In addition he published a set of six sonatas for keyboard (c1755), a collection of fugues (1777) and two collections of chorale preludes.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek provides digital copies of these two collections of chorale preludes. As they are largely notated in older (c-) clefs, they are not easily accesible for players nowadays. So it's time for a modern, free, edition of Marpurg's organ works.

I started recording these choral preludes a few days ago, and I will start publishing the scores shortly. As an apetizer of what's to come, here's Marpurg's prelude to "O Ewigkeit, du Freuden Wort". It has the choral melody in the pedals, so I decided to play it with a strong registration for the pedals (reeds, mixtures and principals) and manuals registration to match (without reeds though).

The score will be available on my site, womewhere later this year...

The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Schnittger organ in the St. Martini-kerk, Groningen (https://www.sonusparadisi.cz/en/organs/netherlands/groningen-st-martini.html).

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Amazing @primalamusika , you play the organ great, and the challenge is strong