Peter Heidorn

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Peter Heidorn (also found as Heydorn/Heÿdorn) is a little-documented North German keyboard composer best known through manuscript transmission. His name appears in the so-called Lowell Mason codex (Yale, New Haven: US-NHub Music Deposit 4, formerly LM 5056 / Ma21.Y2.L8), a major anthology of late-17th-century keyboard music. Modern scholarship connects the attribution “P. Heidorn … Crempe” with the town of Krempe (and also cites documentary references to Heidorn as an organist in Itzehoe), but his biography survives chiefly in such scattered traces rather than in a full narrative record. Among the pieces transmitted under his name is a Toccata in C major, reflecting the North German taste for virtuoso, improvisatory keyboard writing around 1700. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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