{{short description|German church musician and organist}} {{redirect|Schmeding|a similar surname|Schmedding}} {{Infobox person | name = Martin Schmeding | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1975}} | birth_place = Minden, Germany | education = Musikhochschule Hannover | occupation = {{plainlist| * Organist * Academic teacher }} | organizations = {{plainlist| * Hochschule für Musik Freiburg * Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig. }} | awards = {{plainlist| * ARD International Music Competition * Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik * Echo Klassik }} }}
'''Martin Schmeding''' (born 1975) is a German church musician, concert organist and academic teacher, who has made recordings of the complete organ works by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt, Max Reger and Tilo Medek.
== Career == Born in Minden, Schmeding studied church music, music pedagogy, recorder, organ, conducting, harpsichord and music theory at the Musikhochschule Hannover, at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.<ref name="Freiburg" /> His teachers included the organist Jean Boyer, Ulrich Bremsteller, Hans van Nieuwkoop, {{ill|Jacques van Oortmerssen|de}} and {{ill|Lajos Rovatkay|de}}.<ref name="Freiburg" /> In 1999 he succeeded Oskar Gottlieb Blarr as cantor and organist at the Neanderkirche in Düsseldorf. From 2002 to 2004, he was the ''Kreuzorganist'' at the Kreuzkirche in Dresden. In 2004 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he has been president of the institute for church music from 2012. He is ''Titularorganist'' of the {{ill|Ludwigskirche, Freiburg|de|Ludwigskirche (Freiburg im Breisgau)|lt=Ludwigskirche}}, and the conductor of the Herdermer Vokalensemble. From 2015 he has also been a professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.<ref name="Cybele" /><ref>[http://www.schmeding-organist.de/lehre/ Personal Homepage, section "teaching"] (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2022.</ref>
[[File:Berliner Dom 007.jpg|thumb|upright|The organ of the Berlin Cathedral, where Schmeding recorded Vol. 14 of the complete works by Max Reger]] Schmeding recorded, among others, the complete organ works by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt<ref name="Freiburg" /> and Max Reger.<ref name="Clements" /> He performed Reger's works for the label Cybele, completed in 2016, on thirteen different organs from the composer's time, including Walcker organs, at St. Anne's Church, Annaberg-Buchholz, at the {{ill|Protestant Church, Essen-Werden|de|Evangelische Kirche Essen-Werden}} and the Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden, and Sauer organs, at the Berlin Cathedral, in the church of Dobrilugk Abbey, and in Leipzig's {{ill|Michaeliskirche, Leipzig|de|Michaeliskirche (Leipzig)|lt=Michaelskirche}} and Nikolaikirche.<ref name="Clements" /> The recording was selected as "recording of the month" (October) by MusicWeb International.<ref name="Clements" />
== Awards == Schmeding was awarded prizes at organ competitions including the Mendelssohn competition in Berlin, the Pachelbel competition in Nürnberg, the Ritter competition in Magdeburg, the Böhm competition in Lüneburg, competitions at the academies of Hannover and Mannheim, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in Berlin, the European competition for young organists in Ljubljana and the Musica Antiqua Bruges. In 1999 he was a finalist of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.<ref name="Freiburg" /> In 2009 he received a prize of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for his recording of the organ works by Tilo Medek on the label Cybele.<ref name="Freiburg" /> In 2010 he was named "instrumentalist of the year" by Echo Klassik for his recording of an organ version of Bach's Goldberg Variations.<ref name="Cybele" />
== References == <references>
<ref name="Clements">{{cite web | last = Clements | first = Dominy | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/Oct/Reger_organ_051500.htm | title = Recording of the month / Max Reger (1873–1916) / Complete Organ Works | publisher = musicweb-international.com | year = 2016 | accessdate = 2 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Cybele">{{cite web | url = https://www.cybele.de/productmedia/profile/view/id/2 | title = Martin Schmeding / Organist | publisher = Cybele | language = German | accessdate = 27 November 2016 }}</ref>
<ref name="Freiburg">{{cite web |url = http://www.mh-freiburg.de/lehrende/person/details/schmeding/ |title = Prof. Martin Schmeding / Organ |publisher = Hochschule für Musik Freiburg |language = German |accessdate = 27 November 2016 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161128133147/http://www.mh-freiburg.de/lehrende/person/details/schmeding/ |archivedate = 28 November 2016 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official website|http://www.martin-schmeding.de/}}
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