German composer, musician, conductor, and teacher (1873–1916)
Max Reger
Reger at the piano, c. 1910
Born
(1873-03-19)19 March 1873
Brand, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
11 May 1916(1916-05-11) (aged 43)
Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Education
Wiesbaden Conservatory
Royal Conservatory in Leipzig
Occupations
pianist
conductor
composer
professor
Organizations
Royal Conservatory in Leipzig
Meiningen Court Theatre
Works
List of compositions
Spouse
Elsa Reger
Signature
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen.
Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), Der 100. Psalm (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915).
moved to Weiden in 1874. Max had only one sister, Emma, after three other siblings died in childhood. When he turned five, Reger learned organ, violin and...
examples from the late 19th century, including works by Johannes Brahms and MaxReger. O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, BWV 1095 One of the Neumeister Chorales by...
MaxReger was a German composer of the late-Romantic period. His works are initially listed by Opus number (Op.), followed by works without Op. number...
1883: Josef Rheinberger, transcription (tr.) for two pianos, Op. 3 (rev. MaxReger) 1912: Karl Eichler, tr. for piano four hands 1938: Józef Koffler, tr...
Reger (1870–1951), German writer, wife of MaxReger Erik Reger (1893–1954), German writer Fred C. Reger (1916–1994), American politician Janet Reger (1935–2005)...
The MaxReger Art Prize was an art prize of the Bezirk Suhl in the German Democratic Republic. It was awarded annually on 7 October on the occasion of...
Elsa Reger (née von Bagenski; previously von Bercken, 25 October 1870 – 3 May 1951) was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer MaxReger, whose...
technique. From March 1908 to 1910, she was a pupil of MaxReger (from October 1908 in Reger's composition class at the Leipzig Royal Conservatory), who...
houses the Meininger Museum as well as the MaxReger archives, the Thuringian State Archives, the MaxReger music school, the Johannes Brahms concert hall...
Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, MaxReger and Carl Orff. Some of classical music's best-known compositions have...
1999. He played on 11 May 2016, the centenary of MaxReger's death, at the Konzerthaus Dortmund Reger's Variationen und Fuge über ein Originalthema, Op...
Mozart, Op. 132, is a set of variations for orchestra composed in 1914 by MaxReger; the composer conducted the premiere in Berlin on 5 February 1915. He...
musicians: Orlando di Lasso, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Leopold Mozart, MaxReger, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Carl Orff, Johann Pachelbel, Theobald...
include the following: 1901: Six Burlesques, Op. 58 for piano four hands by MaxReger 1904: Scherzo Burlesque, Op. 2 for piano and orchestra by Béla Bartók...
contemporary (chiefly Wagnerian) trends by Hans Rott, Wilhelm Berger, MaxReger and Franz Schmidt, whereas the British composers Hubert Parry and Edward...
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