I like to just say sorry to Markus who had kindly sent me a bio on Sigfrid but I could not turn it into a text file.

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (born 1877, Oberndorf-on-Neckar, Germany--died 1933, Leipzig), a principal German organ composer of his generation. After study at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1919 Karg-Elert became a member of the staff there. Influenced in his earlier works by Claude Debussy, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Arnold Schoenberg, he later developed an original style influenced by Impressionism and by

Renaissance and Baroque polyphony. A virtuoso organist, he also performed in concert tours on the Kunstharmonium. Among his best-known works are the 33 stylistic studies for harmonium, ranging from Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina to Schoenberg, and the Sixty-Six Chorale Improvisations, and 20 Chorale Preludes and Postludes for organ.

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