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6 unusual facts about Max Reger


Doru Popovici

It is to be taken into consideration that Mihail Jora was Max Reger, a student in Leipzig and that Mihail Andricu was Gabriel Fauré, a student in Paris.

Friedrich Rückert

Among the composers who set his poetry to music are Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms, Josef Rheinberger, Mahler (song cycles Kindertotenlieder, Rückert-Lieder), Max Reger, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, Hindemith, Bartók, Berg, Hugo Wolf and Heinrich Kaspar Schmid.

Harold Truscott

His advocacy of Granville Bantock, Havergal Brian, Dussek, Medtner, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Franz Schmidt, Robert Volkmann and others was as sincere, and informed by an acquaintance with the music as close, as his discussions of Schubert’s piano sonatas or Haydn's string quartets.

Jerzy Sterczyński

He has also played works by Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Dobrzyński, Lessel, Reger, Szymanowski and Wieniawski.

Max Reger

From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the university until 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death.

Wolfram Lorenzen

Together with the violinist Renate Eggebrecht and the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet, Lorenzen has recorded the Max Reger Chamber Music Edition on three CDs.


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Organ preludes include works by Johann Pachelbel, Johann Heinrich Scheidemann, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Franz Liszt, Henk Badings, and the third of Max Reger's Fifty-two Chorale Preludes, Op. 67, composed in 1902.

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

In 1997 the ensemble recorded the great piano chamber music of Max Reger, his Piano Quintet c minor and his two Piano Quartets (Wolfram Lorenzen, piano).

Friedemann Kupsa

With the pianist Wolfram Lorenzen he recorded the great chamber works of Max Reger, and his commitment to 20th-century chamber music is further shown by his recording of the first eight string quartets by Darius Milhaud and the two great quartets by Arthur Bliss.

Helga Schauerte-Maubouet

Max Reger : œuvre d'orgue pour le temps de Noël (Syrius,141320) 1997,

Mark Latimer

He is also known for his performances of pieces by lesser known composers such as Sorabji, Reger, Honegger, Lambert and others.


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