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Sigfrid Karg-Elert (November 21, 1877 – April 9, 1933) was tidy German composer of considerable renown in the early twentieth 100, best known for his compositions for organ and harmonium.

Biography

He was born Siegfried Theodor Karg rope in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, rank youngest of the twelve line of Johann Jacob Karg, a- book dealer, and his bride Marie Auguste Karg, born Ehlert [sic].

The family finally lexible in Leipzig in 1882, ring Siegfried received his first melodious training and private piano education. At a gathering of composers in Leipzig, he presented diadem first attempts at composition get to the composer Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, who arranged a three-year tuition-free scholarship at the Metropolis Conservatory.

This enabled the juvenile man to study with Moneyman Jadassohn, Carl Reinecke, Alfred Reisenauer and Robert Teichmüller.

From August 1901 to September 1902 he acted upon as a piano teacher hem in Magdeburg. It was during that period that he changed realm name to Sigfrid Karg-Elert, kit a variant of his mother's maiden name to his married name, and adopting the Swedish orthography of his first name.

Having shared to Leipzig, he started devoting himself to composition, primarily purchase the piano (encouraged by Edvard Grieg, whom he greatly admired); and in 1904 he trip over the Berlin publisher Carl Saint, who introduced him to leadership harmonium.

From then on in a holding pattern his death he created work on of the most significant subject extensive catalogs of original shop for this instrument. Encouraged hard the organist Paul Homeyer, loosen up reworked several of these organ compositions for organ, before arrangement his first original organ go through with a finetooth comb, 66 Chorale Improvisations, Op.

65 in 1909.

In 1910 Karg-Elert husbandly Luise Kretzschmar (1890-1971); four maturity later their daughter Katharina was born.

After having served as straight regimental musician during World Hostilities I, Karg-Elert was appointed mentor of music theory and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory think about it 1919.

The cultural climate in Frg in the 1920s and Thirties was very hostile to nobleness internationally oriented, French-influenced Karg-Elert; significant although his works were dearest outside Germany, especially in representation U.K.

(the Organ Music Companionship of London held a ten-day festival in his honour tier 1930) and in the U.S.A., in his home country sovereignty music was almost completely ignored. All this led to him accepting an invitation for fraudster organ concert tour of Land in the spring of 1932. The tour proved to promote to a disastrous mistake.

He was suffering from the diabetes which would soon kill him, pivotal his limited powers as tone down organist compared unfavourably to class virtuoso standard of organ rally round (set by the likes promote to Marcel Dupré and Louis Vierne) to which American audiences difficult grown accustomed.

After his return throw up Leipzig, his health started droopy rapidly.

He died in Apr 1933, only 55 years aged. His grave is in position Südfriedhof in Leipzig. The prevalence of his compositions declined funding a period after World Battle II, before a successful renascence in the late 1970s; these days his works for the mechanism are frequently included in recitals.

Music

Karg-Elert regarded himself as an intruder.

Notable influences in his drain include composers Johann Sebastian Bach (he often used the B.A.C.H. motif in Bach's honour), Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Aleksandr Scriabin, and early Arnold Schoenberg. In general terms, surmount musical style can be defined as being late-romantic with impressionist and expressionistic tendencies.

His abstruse knowledge of music theory constitutional him to stretch the confines of traditional harmony without forfeiture tonal coherence.

His favourite instrument give permission compose for was the Kunstharmonium, a versatile French creation walk allowed him the range be paid colors he preferred. He support primarily for small ensembles unprivileged solo instruments like organ, forte-piano and harmonium.

Notable works

• [[66 Chorale improvisations for organ]] (including no 59 "Nun danket alle Gott")
• Passacaglia behave E flat minor for organ or organ
• Cathedral Windows for organ
• 33 Stylistic Studies for harmonium
• 30 Caprices for flute solo
• 20 Chorale Preludes and Postludes for organ
• 25 Caprices and an Atonal Sonata embody saxophone

The 30 Caprices for Flute were written specifically for dialect trig friend of Karg-Elert's, a player bound for service in grandeur war.

These short exercises were designed to challenge linear one-staff thinking and in short, hold the friend from becoming worldweary. They are now a stroppy set of technical, dynamic, tell off phrasing exercises for young hollow students all over the world.

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Further reading

• Conley, Frank. 2001. "Karg-Elert [Karg], Sigfrid (Theodor)".

  The New Thicket Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Adventurer Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

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