Marco de Goeij

Who is Marco de Goeij?

Marco de Goeij is a Dutch composer, known for having reconstructed the lost musical score for the Deep Purple song Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1999.

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.