The Homage to Handel for Organ was composed ‘as an expression of thanks for having been elected as an honorary member of the Royal College of Organists in 1914. Karg-Elert responded to the honour with this work calling on inspiration from a composer ‘whom both England and German claim as their own’ at the time of the commencement of hostilities between the two nations. Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer active in the early twentieth century whose broad output is eclipsed almost entirely by his works for harmonium and Organ instruments for which he was a gifted and prolific composer. His Organ works include the highly regarded Sixty-six Choral Improvisations andTwenty Choral Preludes and Postludes among others. Many of his works are active in Organ repertoire.

Since the 1970th Karg-Elerts organ- reed organ- und piano music systematically gets rediscovered but his songs however were left out which was certainly wrong. His more than 200 solo singings are high-ranking compositions which furthermore

Each piece dedicated to one of the three UK organists who arranged the Karg-Elert Festival in 1930.

Composer : Karg-Elert, SigfridInstrumentation : S,OrgEdition : UrtextEditor : Michel, J;Stockmeier, W

Composer : Karg-Elert, SigfridInstrumentation : OrgEdition : UrtextEditor : Weyer, Martin

Composer : Karg-Elert, Sigfrid Instrumentation : Ssolo,Klar,Ob,Ch,Org Edition : Score Separate Parts available on demand

Par KARG-ELERT SIGFRID. Editeur(s) d'origine: Hartmann, Günter/ Répertoire / Orgue