Born in about 1595 in Whrden in Holstein, where his
father, a native of Hamburg, had recently been
appointed organist, Heinrich Scheidemann studied
between 1611 and 1614 with Sweelinck in Amsterdam.
His father had moved from Whrden by 1604 to take
the position of organist at the Catharinenkirche in
Hamburg, and the church supported his sons study, In
der Hoffnung, dass er ein braver Knstler und dereinst
ihr Org. werden sollte (in the hope that he might
become a fine artist and some day an organist). When
his studies in Amsterdam came to an end Sweelinck
wrote a farewell canon for him, with the dedication Ter
eeren des vromen Jongkmans Henderich Scheijtman,
van Hamborgh, is dit geschreven bij mij, Jan P.
Sweelinck, organist tot Amsterdam, op den 12den
Novemb. 1614 (For the worthy young man Heinrich
Scheidemann of Hamburg this is written by me, Jan
P.Sweelinck, organist of Amsterdam, on 12th
November 1614). In the late 1620s, and at least by
1629, he succeeded his father as organist at the
Catharinenkirche, and in 1633 was appointed clerk of
the church, marrying in the following year the daughter
of a doctor.
During his years at Hamburg Scheidemann
established himself as an important figure in the world
of North German organ music. His pupils included
J.A.Reincken, later his assistant and successor, Werner
Fabricius, who became organist at the Nikolaikirche in
Leipzig, Wolfgang Wessnitzer of Celle, Jakob Lorentz
of the Waisenhaus in Hamburg, and others of
contemporary distinction. He served as a consultant on
the construction of new instruments in Brunswick,
Lbeck, Bremen and elsewhere, and saw to the
enlargement of his own instrument at the
Catharinenkirche by the organ-builder Gottfried
Fritzsche, with the addition of a Brustwerk to make a
four-manual instrument with the existing Hauptwerk,
Rckpositiv, and Oberwerk, pedals and 56 stops. He
died during an epidemic of the plague in Hamburg in
1663, and his widow, in recognition of her husbands
services, received a pension from the city.
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Discography
  BACH, J.S. / MOZART: Violin Concertos (Kreisler) (1915-1945) |  BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concertos (Kreisler) (1935-1936) |  BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concertos, Vol. 1 (Kreisler) (1926) |
 BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / GRIEG: Violin Sonatas (Kreisler / Rachmaninov) (1928) |  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonatas (Complete) (Kreisler) (1935-1936) |  BRUCH / BRAHMS: Violin Concertos (Kreisler) (1925, 1936) |
 CHRISTMAS (A Piano Christmas in the 1920s) |  GREAT VIOLINISTS |  KREISLER PLAYS KREISLER |
 KREISLER: Kreisler Plays Kreisler (1942-1946) |  MCCORMACK, John: McCormack Edition, Vol. 4: The Acoustic Recordings (1913-1914) |  MCCORMACK, John: McCormack Edition, Vol. 5: The Acoustic Recordings (1914-1915) |
 MCCORMACK, John: McCormack Edition, Vol. 6: The Acoustic Recordings (1915-1916) |  MCCORMACK, John: McCormack Edition, Vol. 7: The Acoustic Recordings (1916-1918) |  MCCORMACK, John: Remember (1911-1928) |
 MOZART / BRAHMS: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (Kreisler) (1924, 1927) |
