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Max Reger
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. In 1901 he settled in Munich, where he taught organ and composition, and from 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the university until 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatoire until his death. He was also active internationally as a conductor and pianist in that period of time. Among his students there were Joseph Haas and George Szell. From 1911 he conducted the court orchestra at Meiningen until it was disbanded in 1914, when he moved to Jena. He died of a heart attack in Leipzig. During a composing life of little more than 20 years, Reger produced an enormous output in all genres, nearly always in abstract forms, although few of his compositions are well known today. Many of his works are fugues or in variation form, including what is probably his best known orchestral work, the Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart (based on the opening theme of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 331). He also wrote a large amount of music for organ, including the Fantasy and Fugue on BACH (this piece, based on the BACH motif, is considered one of the most difficult and demanding in organ literature). He was particularly attracted to the fugal form his entire life, once remarking: "Other people write fugues - I live inside them". He
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Lose Blaetter, Op. 13: XII. Choral
6,1592Variation 2: Poco agitato
5,6693Variation 1: L'istesso tempo
5,3304Mariä Wiegenlied
3,2145Variation 3: Con moto
2,6986Nachtlied, Op. 138, No. 3
2,5067Lose Blätter, Op. 13: No. 12, Choral
1,9228V. Siciliano in E minor
1,6069Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 132 (version for orchestra): Theme: Andante grazioso
1,55510Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 86 (Version for 2 Pianos): Fuga: Allegro con spirito
1,468albums
REGER: Mozart Variations Op. 132 / Hiller Variations Op. 100
Reger: Piano Concerto & Solo works
REGER: 6 Trios, Op. 47 / Introduction, Variations and Fugue, Op. 73
Reger: Piano Concerto, Op. 114 & Solo works
Mozart, Reger, Busoni: Music For Two Pianos
REGER: Improvisationen / Humoresken / Traume am Kamin
Reger: Das gesamte Orgelwerk, Vol. 2
REGER: Six Piano Pieces / Silhouetten / Blatter und Bluten
Reger: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 4
Nachtlied, Op. 138, No. 3
REGER: Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E Minor / 9 Organ Pieces, Op. 129
Reger, M.: Variations and Fugue On A Theme of Mozart / 4 Tondichtungen Nach Arnold Bocklin