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Collection name
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1929-31)
Unique identifier
Cup.410.c.255
Description
A collection, partly in typescript and MS., of works on music (issues of and extracts from periodicals), letters, photographs and other material referring to, or written by the German composer and keyboard player Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933), including two copies of a prospectus (with programmes) for 10 Organ Recitals given at St. Lawrence Jewry, Gresham Street, London between 5 and 17 May 1930 as the Karg-Elert Festival and handbills for organ recitals given in Mannheim and Leipzig in 1929 and 1931.
Note: the shelf-mark given here supersedes Cup.900.p.1. The material is available on microfilm at A. 7510.
1. Karg-Elert Festival: 5-17 May 1930
Each recital consisted of music by Karg-Elert, given by the performers listed below. The prospectus begins with a Biographical Note on Karg-Elert (by Godfrey Sceats) and the programmes include short descriptive notes on certain of the pieces.
5 May 1930: E. Percy Hallam.
6 May 1930: Nicholas Choveaux.
7 May 1930: Archibald Farmer.
8 May 1930: Norman Askew.
10 May 1930: J.A. Sowerbutts.
12 May 1930: Archibald Farmer, with Narda Hvaler (violin) and Edna Howard (vocal).
13 May 1930: Nicholas Choveaux, with Edna Howard, Kathleen Phillips and F. Darwin Fox (vocal).
14 May 1930: Emlyn Davies, with the Wimbledon Conservatoire Ladies Choir and Narda Hvaler (violin, by permission of Trinity College of Music).
15 May 1930: Charles F. Waters.
17 May 1930: Godfrey Sceats.
2. Organ Concerts
26 May 1929, Christus-Kirche, Mannheim: 207. Orgel-Konzert, given by Arno Landmann and entitled Orgelwerke englischer Meister.
29 November 1931, Johanniskirche, Leipzig: Orgelweihe-Konzert with Ella Stark-Hilarius (soprano), Dr Hans Mlynarczyk (violin), Der Johanniskirchenchor and Willy Stark (organ) (with words).
Date range
1929 - 1931
Associated People and Organisations
Wimbledon Conservatoire Ladies' Choir -
Waters, Charles F. -
Trinity College of Music -
Stark-Hilarius, Ella -
Stark, Willy -
Sowerbutts, J. A. -
Sceats, Godfrey -
Phillips, Kathleen -
Mlynarczyk, Hans -
Landmann, Arno -
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid (Theodor) -
Hvaler, Narda -
Howard, Edna -
Hallam, E. Percy -
Fox, F. Darwin -
Farmer, Archibald -
Davies, Emlyn -
Choveaux, Nicholas -
Askew, Norman -
Associated Places
Christus-Kirche, Mannheim
Johanniskirche, Leipzig
St. Lawrence Jewry Church, Gresham Street EC2
Associated Times
20th century - early 1900-1930
20th century - mid 1931-1970
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St Pancras
,96 Euston Road
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