Karg elert biography

German composer

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (November 21, &#;&#; April 9, ) was a German composer in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for pipe organ and reed organ.

Biography

Karg-Elert was born Siegfried Theodor Karg in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, the youngest of the twelve children of Johann Jacob Karg, a book dealer, and his wife Marie Auguste Karg, born Ehlert (sic).^{[citation needed]} According to another account, however, his father was a newspaper editor and publisher (Conley ).

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The family finally settled in Leipzig in , where Siegfried received his first musical training and private piano instruction. At a gathering of composers in Leipzig, he presented his first attempts at composition to the composer Emil von Reznicek, who arranged a three-year tuition-free scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatory.

This enabled the young man to study with Salomon Jadassohn, Carl Reinecke, Alfred Reisenauer and Robert Tei