Martin Lücker

Martin Lücker (born 11 October 1953) is a German classical organist, and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

Martin Lücker
At the organ of the Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt, December 2008
Born (1953-10-11) 11 October 1953
Preußisch Oldendorf, Germany
Occupations
  • Classical organist
  • Professor
Organizations
Prospect of the organ, 1990

Career

Born in Preußisch Oldendorf, Lücker studied organ in Hannover[1] and in Vienna with Anton Heiller,[2] and conducting in Detmold with Martin Stephani.[3] He first worked there at the Landestheater Detmold as repetiteur, then as assistant of the choir director at the Oper Frankfurt.[1]

From 1983, he has been organist of the main Protestant church of Frankfurt, the Katharinenkirche.[1][4] He has been professor of Künstlerisches Orgelspiel und Methodik/Didaktik des Orgelunterrichtes (concert organ playing and didactic of teaching organ playing) at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 1998.[1] From August 2011 to 2016, he was also the conductor of the Figuralchor Frankfurt.[1][3][5]

At the Katharinenkirche, he established two regular concert series. In "30 Minuten Orgelmusik" (30 minutes of organ music“, he plays every Monday and Thursday at 4:30 pm a free concert of 30 minutes, playing the 3000th concert in 2013.[1][6] In "Musik in Sankt Katharinen" (Music in Saint Catharine's), he offers two organ concerts a months, played by himself and guests, and choral music with the Kantorei St. Katharinen.[1]

In 2012, he played a concert at the historic Stumm organ of the Rheingauer Dom with a program that Albert Schweitzer had performed in Frankfurt in 1928 on a similar instrument that was destroyed.[7] He celebrated his 30th anniversary at the Katharinenkirche with a concert.[8]

Selected recordings
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Leipziger Spätwerke. Hänssler CD 92.100
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Eine Weimarer Tonleiter. Hänssler CD 92.091
  • Das Frankfurter Orgelbuch, Sieben zeitgenössische Orgelstücke, Melisma MELI 7114-2
  • Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Stanley and others with Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet) and Hartmut Friedrich (trombone). Capriccio 10483

References
  1. Holze, Guido (5 April 2014). "Ein Seiteneinsteiger mit Sinn für Kontinuität". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  2. "Martin Lücker (Organ)". bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  3. "Künstlerische Leitung" (in German). Figuralchor Frankfurt. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  4. "Martin Lücker". Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  5. "Man trifft sich immer zweimal". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 30 December 2011. p. 48.
  6. "Frankfurter Organist Martin Lücker gibt 3000. kostenloses Konzert". Frankfurter Neue Presse (in German). 30 June 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. "Historisches Orgelkonzert im Rheingauer Dom /Ganz nah am Original: Albert Schweitzers Konzert aus dem Jahr 1928 in Geisenheim". Rheingau Echo (in German). 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  8. ""Die Orgel ist ein einsames Geschäft" / Musik als Gegenpol zum Einkaufstrubel / Martin Lücker feiert sein Dienstjubiläum in der Katharinenkirche mit einem Konzert". Ev. Sonntagszeitung (in German). 2013. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
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