Christian Friedrich Ruppe (1753-1826) - Lento Grave & Andante
Ruppe was born in Bad Salzungen in 1753 as the son of an organ and hat maker, Ernst Salomon Ruppe. It is known that he enrolled as a student in Leiden, and later succeeded Carel Vermeulen as conductor. He was also connected to the Lutheran church as an organist, and had a new organ built there.
He also worked as a conductor and singing teacher at the Lutheran Orphanage. This was a unique choir, since it was composed of boys and girls and in the Netherlands as far as known never occurred before. For this, he also wrote some works, usually with orchestral accompaniment, such as the "Music for Christmas 1796", and this "Music for Easter 1797", and two further Christmas cantatas from 1797 and 1798, of which unfortunately only the text of is left. Later, Ruppe was appointed lecturer in the field of music, the first in the Netherlands at all, and also wrote accompanying work - Theorie der Heedendaagschen Muzijk, which is a free translation of the Versuch der wahren Art Klavier zu spielen by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. He also wrote other occasional works, six organ concerts (one of which was only a keyboard extract is left), lots of chamber music for piano, with or without other instruments.
This piece is the first and the third of the 18 pieces for Organ or Forte-Piano, written in 1798. The premiere was played at the Wolfferts-organ in the Lutheran Church in Leiden.
The organ is built by Johann Niclas Stumm in ca. 1750. About 90 procent of the whole original material is still kept. There was a very big restoration in 2009/11 by Rainer Müller.
Gespeeld door / Played by: Leander Schoormans
Opname / Recording: Leander Schoormans, Friday 30 July 2021 in the Protestant church of Trarbach (Germany)
I'm sorry that it was not played very perfectly, but because of the beauty of the organ I wanted to share it with you all very much.
Many thanks to the organist, mr. Rörig.
