Martin Lücker

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Martin Lücker at the organ of the Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, 2008

Martin Lücker (born October 11, 1953 in Preußisch Oldendorf ) is a German organist , church musician and emeritus professor for artistic organ playing and methodology / didactics of organ lessons at the Frankfurt University of Music . Since 1983 he has been organist at the traditional Protestant St. Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Lücker comes from a family of doctors. He has three siblings. He studied organ in Hanover and Vienna , harpsichord in Boston and conducting in Detmold . His teachers included the Straube student Wolfgang Auler , the Ramin -Students Volker Gwinner , later was Lücker student of Anton Heiller in Vienna. From 1975 to 1982 he was initially a lecturer at the Herford University of Church Music , from 1979 to 1983 he was Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Landestheater Detmold and at the Frankfurt Opera House . In 1983 he was appointed to the Katharinenkirche to succeed Ingrid Stieber . Until 1998 he also directed the St. Katharinen Choir there . From August 2011 to December 2015 Lücker was director of the Figural Choir Frankfurt .

Since 1988 he has been teaching the organ at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main, from 1998 to 2016 as holder of the professorship for artistic organ playing and methodology / didactics of organ lessons . He regularly gives concerts, including the concert series 30 minutes of organ music with free admission since 1983 , which gathers a regular audience in the Katharinenkirche twice a week.

Even before he took the A-exam at the age of 21, he had won four prizes in international competitions, namely 3rd prize and the audience's prize at the International Organ Competition in Bruges , 1st prize at the Nuremberg International Organ Week , 3rd prize Prize at the ARD competition in Munich and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 1974. In 1997 he was a juror at the competition in Bruges and in 1998 at the Johann Pachelbel competition at the Organ Week in Nuremberg.

The Frankfurt organ book published by Lücker - seven contemporary organ pieces, composed on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Frankfurt am Main - received the music edition prize of the German Association of Music Publishers in 1994.

Trivia

Because the weekly organ concerts in the Katharinenkirche are currently not possible due to the restrictions during the corona crisis , Martin Lücker has now published these concerts on youtube.

Discography (selection)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Leipzig late works . Hänssler CD 92.100
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, a Weimar scale . Hänssler CD 92.091
  • The Frankfurt Organ Book, Seven Contemporary Organ Pieces, Melisma MELI 7114-2
  • TOP - works by Bach, Vivaldi, Stanley a. a. Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet, Hartmut Friedrich, trombone, Martin Lücker, organ. Capriccio 10483

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Obert: The red thread: His happiness - our happiness. (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. August 9, 2014, archived from the original on March 12, 2017 ; accessed on March 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  2. ↑ They always meet twice in FAZ of December 30, 2011, page 48
  3. ↑ Martin Lücker's YouTube channel. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
predecessor Office successor
Ingrid Stieber Organist at St. Katharinenkirche (Frankfurt am Main)
since 1983
personal data
SURNAME Lücker, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Oldendorf