Organ Recital: Hans-Joachim Trappe

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823-1881)
from École d’Orgue (1862)
     Fanfare ( Allegro non troppo)

Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)
Verset in F Major

Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)
from Douze Pièces pour Orgue (1889)
     3. Toccata

Théodore Dubois
from Sept Morceaux pour Grand Orgue
     2. Cantilène religieuse

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
from Sonata No. 1 “Pontificale” in D Minor (1874)
     Marche Pontificale ( Maestoso)

Théodore Salomé (1834-1896)
from Dix Pièces pour Orgue, Vol. 3, Op. 48 (1894)
     2. Prière

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
from L’Organiste Pratique pour Harmonium, Op. 47
     2. Grand chœur triomphal


Hans-Joachim Trappe was born in Castrop-Rauxel in 1954 and spent his childhood and youth in Duderstadt, a small town in southern Lower Saxony. After high school in Duderstadt, he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen from 1973 to 1979. 1979: state exam. 1981: doctor of medicine. 1990 and 1994: postdoctoral appointment as professor at the Medical University of Hannover. In 1996, he was appointed associate professor of internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Bochum and the appointment as Director of the University Hospital at St. Mary’s Hospital Herne. Since 2014 he has been Medical Director of the General Hospital. He is a member of various national and international cardiology societies.

At the age of 9 he began piano lessons, He began his organ formation in 1966 with Josef Jung, cantor and organist at St. Cyriakus in Duderstadt. Further significant musical influence by the cathedral organists Fritz Soddemann, Hildesheim, and Professor Clemens Ganz, Cologne. Since 1969, in addition to his professional activities as an organist at the Basilika St. Cyriakus Duderstadt, at Mariendom, Hildesheim, at St. Paul's Cathedral, Münster and at the Abbey of St. Joseph in Gerleve.

He performs organ concerts at home and abroad, including the Cologne Cathedral, the Salzburg Cathedral, the Basilica "Onze lieve vrouwe" in Maastricht, in the St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin, in the St. Paul Church Frankfurt am Main and in the Church of the Redeemer Jerusalem. He has made many CD recordings at venues including the Passau Cathedral, the Cathedral of Hildesheim, the Silbermann organs in the cathedral and St. Peter's Church at Freiberg, the Arp Schnitger organ of the Church of St. Jacobi in Hamburg and the Riepp organs of the Basilica Ottobeuren, at the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Saint-Sulpice (Paris) and the Daniele-Giani organ at the Vatican. Member of several national and international organ societies. Hans-Joachim Trappe is married and has 3 children.