Marc Schaefer (organist)

Marc Schaefer (* 1934 in Alsace ) is a French organist.

He studied church music and theology in Strasbourg , Paris and Princeton / USA . In 1962 he was appointed professor of organ at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, and a year later he was appointed organist of the organ in Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, which was made by Johann Andreas Silbermann . As an organ expert he works for the diocese of Strasbourg , the Evangelical Church of Alsace-Lorraine and the State Monument Office in Paris. Besides France, he gave organ concerts in western and northern European countries, in Germany and in the USA.

As a Buxtehude expert he presented himself on a record recorded in the monastery church in Muri ( Switzerland ), as an organ building expert with his doctoral thesis on the Alsatian Silbermann family, approved in 1984 .

Publications

• List of works by Andreas Silbermann . in: Silbermann. History and legend of an organ building family . Jan Thorbecke-Verlag, Ostfildern 2006
• The Silbermann archive: the handwritten estate of the organ maker Johann Andreas Silbermann (1712-1783) . Winterthur, Amadeus, c1994 Prattica musicale; Vol. 4
• with Gilbert Poinsot: La restauration de l'orgue Silbermann Ebersmunster. 1997-1998 . Self-published in 1998.

Sound carrier recordings

• LP Dietrich Buxtehude - organ music. Marc Schaefer in the Muri monastery church. Label: Vox Humana VH 30-653
• CD The reconstructed Johann Andreas Silbermann organ in the Benedictine church in Villingen. An organ portrait. 2011 with Ars Musici