Marco de Goeij

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Marco de Goeij
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]

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