Lexikon Orgel
Laaber–Verlag,
Lexikon der Orgel: Polen, Nowowiejski (2007)
Excerpts from the article:
As a result of the division of Europe after the Second World War by the 'Iron Curtain', organ music from Poland and other Eastern European countries remained largely unknown in the former West. This applies not only to the 'Chopin of the organ', as Felix Nowowiejski is called in Poland, a composer and organ virtuoso who was known throughout Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and whose works were printed and performed in the centers of musical life...
Felix Nowowiejski was well known in Europe as a composer, organist and conductor in the first half of the 20th century. His extensive work includes all musical genres of his time, with vocal works (operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, solo songs) forming a focus. But he also composed numerous symphonic works (symphonies, overtures, symphonic poems), chamber music, piano and organ music. In particular, his early oratorio Quo vadis op. 13 (1905–1909), based on the novel by the Polish Nobel Prize winner for literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, established his international recognition as a composer with over 200 performances worldwide....
(Dr. Rudolf Innig)