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Reger, Max, 1873-1916.
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Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
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Reger, Max (1873-1916): Sämtliche Musikautographen in der BSB
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Max Reger, who was born in the Upper Palatinate, worked in Munich from 1901 to 1907, including a brief period at the Akademie der Tonkunst in succession to Josef Rheinberger. In 1908 he was appointed university music director and professor at the conservatory in Leipzig, in 1911 he took up the position of court kapellmeister of the Meininger Hofkapelle. Overburdened by intensive teaching, composition and concert activity, Reger succumbed to a heart failure in 1916. Reger's urn was transferred from Jena to the Waldfriedhof in Munich in 1930 at the request of his widow Elsa Reger, after she had returned to Munich in 1929. After the Max-Reger-Institut in Karlsruhe the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has one of the large collections of Max Reger's own writings. Efforts of the library in the 1920s to acquire the estate directly from Elsa Reger failed, but in later times close connections between Elsa Reger and the music department developed and manuscripts of two central works could be purchased, the autograph scores (engraving templates) of the 'Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart' op. 132 (acquired in 1942) and the Clarinet Quintet in A major op. 146 (acquired in 1946). Since this time it has been possible again and again to increase the Reger stock through purchases and gifts, among them the Suite in G minor for organ op. 92, the Fantasy and Fugue in D minor for organ op. 135b, the impressive large-format scores of 'Die Weihe der Nacht' for alto, male choir and orchestra op. 119 and 'Der Einsiedler' for baritone, choir and orchestra op. 144,1 and many smaller works, also sketches for various compositions. A total of 27 autograph music manuscripts of Max Reger are kept in the BSB. (from the website)
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