Marco de Goeij
Marco de Goeij | |
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Birth name | Marco de Goeij |
Born |
1967 Gouda Netherlands |
Genres | Neo-classical, Classical |
Occupations | Musician, Composer |
Years active | 1987 – present |
Marco de Goeij (born, 1967 Gouda) is a Dutch composer, known for having reconstructed the lost musical score for the Deep Purple song Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1999.[1][2][3][4]
Marco de Goeij studied classical guitar at the Utrecht School of the Arts, graduating in 1992. He continued to study in Paris, following lessons in modern classical music from Wim Hoogewerf, a Dutch classical guitarist and microtonalist.
In the mid-1990s, when De Goeij was writing an article about Deep Purple's "Concerto for Group and Orchestra", De Goeij learned that the scores of this concerto for full orchestra, which was then last performed in 1970, were missing. De Goeij reconstructed the scores by listening to CD recordings and watching videos of live performances. He presented the first two of the three parts of the scores to Deep Purple in 1997 when the band was performing in the Netherlands. After the scores were completed, the reconstructed concerto was first performed by Deep Purple and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Since then, it has been performed as part of a 2000-2001 world tour, and on several occasions afterwards, see the main article on Concerto for Group and Orchestra.
Nowadays Marco de Goeij lives in Bodegraven. He is active as a composer and arranger, having written pieces for carillon, guitar, cello, pipe organ and brass. His original compositions include Dialogue (1989) for saxophone and piano, Canticles, four songs for mourning (1996) and A Rainy Day with Carillons (1997) for carillon, and two works for brass trio titled Intrada (2007) and Jazz Impromptus (2012).[5][6][7][8][9]
External links
- Performance of Dialogue, composed by Marco de Goeij for saxophone and piano in 1989.
- Performance of L.M. Gottschalk's 'The Dying Poet', arranged for carillon by Marco de Goeij.
- Performance of 'Intrada', composed by Marco de Goeij for brass trio in 2007.
References
- ↑ DPAS Review: Jon Lord Interview Session, Sydney Opera House, 21st January 2003
- ↑ Tour reviews Press for the Australian tour
- ↑ Concerto for Group and Orchestra - Back from the Dead
- ↑ One Mann's Tale
- ↑ YouTube video of a performance of Dialogue for saxophone and piano
- ↑ Short bio at website of a music school in Bodegraven (in Dutch)
- ↑ Post about Marco de Goeij at Darker than Blue, a blog about Deep Purple and related topics
- ↑ Gronings beiaardboek vol. 4, works for carillon (cop. 1998)
- ↑ Program of a 2001 carillon concert by Gideon Bodden