Mayfair Organ Concerts
St George’s, Hanover Square, 2 July 2024

Two German Anniversaries: 1624 & 1674
Samuel Scheidt and Matthais Weckmann

Andrew Benson-Wilson

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
Tabulatura nova, 1624
Echo ad manuale duplex forte et lene
Fantasia super Io son ferito lasso
Modus pleno Organo pedaliter: Benedicamus à 6 Voc

Matthias Weckmann (c1616-1674)
Canzon in G
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein
Praeludium A.5 Vocem

This recital celebrates the 400th and 350th anniversaries of two of the most important German composers of the early to mid-17th century: Samuel Scheidt’s seminal three-volume 1624 Tabulatura nova and Matthias Weckmann, who died in 1674.

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