Martin Rost (organist)

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Martin Rost (* 1963 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German organist .

Life

Stellwagen organ from 1659 in Stralsund, St. Marien

Martin Rost studied from 1983 to 1989 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . This was followed by a position as organist at the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall in Frankfurt (Oder) (1989–1997). Here he initiated the Wilhelm Sauer Organ Festival . In 1994 he was a member of the jury for Jugend musiziert . Since 1997 he has been organist and cantor at St. Marien Church in Stralsund , which has an early baroque organ by Friedrich Stellwagen from 1659. In 1998 he brought the Friedrich Stellwagen Organ Days to life. In 1998/1999 he taught at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald at the Institute for Church Music and Musicology located there. He has been a lecturer for artistic organ playing at the Rostock University of Music and Drama since 2000 .

As an organ expert for the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and as a founding member of the " Baltic Organ Center " Stralsund, Rost has accompanied the restoration and reconstruction of more than 80 historical organs. An international concert career has taken him to various European countries and the USA.

Numerous CD recordings, radio and television recordings are dedicated to the organ landscape of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania as well as the Baltic States. Together with Krzysztof Urbaniak , he published the Choral Variations of the Gdańsk composer Daniel Magnus Gronau in 2013 and his registration regulations in 2015 , which is the largest surviving collection of registrations from the 18th century.

Fonts

  • (with Krzysztof Urbaniak): The registration rules of Daniel Magnus Gronau's Choral Variations for Organ. A source for the interpretation of the north German organ music of the 18th century. Baltic Organ Center Stralsund, Kraków / Unum / Stralsund 2013, ISBN 978-83-7643-098-0 .
  • (with Krzysztof Urbaniak [Hrsg.]): Daniel Magnus Gronau: Choral Variations for Organ. Complete edition. 2 vols. Ortus-Musikverlag, Beeskow 2015, ISBN 979-0-502340-37-7 .
  • Organs in Frankfurt, Oder. A contribution to the city's musical history. Pape-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-921140-38-2 .

Discography (selection)

  • North German organ art. 4 CDs. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2010–2014 (organs in Lübeck, Danzig, Hamburg, Lüneburg).
  • Gdansk Baroque 1. Sebastian Paschen, 2013 (organ in Pasłęk).
  • (with Krzysztof Urbaniak): Casparini organ in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Adakavas, Lithuania. Baltic Organ Center, 2010.
  • Stellwagen organ (1659). Martin Rost plays north German organ music. Evangelical parish of St. Marien Stralsund, 2009.
  • Organ portraits 5. The generation of organ builders Wagner, Migendt, Marx. Horst Brauner, 2009.
  • Organ landscape, organ landscape Lithuania. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2009.
  • Organ landscape, organ landscape Latvian. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2008.
  • Organ landscape, organ landscape Estonia. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2007.
  • Tallinna Toomkirik. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2006.
  • Organ landscape, organ landscape Pomerania. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 2004.
  • Romantic organs. 5 CDs. Classics CTH, 1992–1998 (organs in Frankfurt / Oder, Sternberg, Libau, Ilmenau, Vyšší Brod).
  • Organ landscape Mecklenburg. Martin Rost plays on organs in Basedow, Belitz, Blankenhagen, Güstrow, Jördenstorf, Neuburg, Neukirchen, Neustrelitz, Rostock, Schwerin, Sternberg and Zittow. Dabringhaus and Grimm, 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita at the Rostock University of Music and Theater , accessed on September 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Martin Rost's presence on stellwagen.de , accessed on September 19, 2017.
  3. ^ The registrations of Daniel Magnus Gronau for the organ of St. Johann in Danzig 1746. On the website of the Walcker Foundation for Organ Research, accessed on September 19, 2017 (PDF file, 101 KB).
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)