Martin Schmeding
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| Born | 1975 (age 41–42) Minden, Germany |
| Education | Musikhochschule Hannover |
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Martin Schmeding (born 1975) is a German church musician, concert organist and academic teacher, who has made recordings of the complete organ works by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt, Max Reger and Tilo Medek.
Born in Minden, Schmeding studied church music, music pedagocic, recorder, organ, conducting, harpsichord and music theory at the Musikhochschule Hannover, at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. His teachers included the organist Jean Boyer, Ulrich Bremsteller, Hans van Nieuwkoop, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Lajos Rovatkay. In 1999 he succeeded Oskar Gottlieb Blarr as cantor and organist at the Neanderkirche in Düsseldorf. From 2002 to 2004, he was the Kreuzorganist at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. In 2004 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he has been president of the institute for church music from 2012. He is Titularorganist of the Ludwigskirche, and the conductor of the Herdermer Vokalensemble. From 2016 he has also been a professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.
Schmeding recorded, among others, the complete organ works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt and Max Reger. He performed Reger's works for the label Cybele, completed in 2016, on thirteen different organs from the composer's time, including Walcker organs, at St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz, at the Protestant Church, Essen-Werden and the Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden, and Sauer organs, at the Berlin Cathedral, in the church of Dobrilugk Abbey, and in Leipzig's Michaelskirche and Nikolaikirche. The recording was selected as "recording of the month" (October) by MusicWeb International.
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