Max Reger

Max Reger

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, as a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, as a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and as 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).

Birth and Death Data: Born March 19, 1873 (Brand), Died May 11, 1916 (Leipzig)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1909 - 1945

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, arranger

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	B-8234	10-in.	9/17/1909	Liebesfeier	Ernestine Schumann-Heink	Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-16077	10-in.	6/8/1915	Andantino	Efrem Zimbalist	Violin solo	composer
Victor	B-19524	10-in.	3/28/1917	The Virgin's slumber song	Julia Culp	Contralto vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	CVE-43988	12-in.	5/16/1928	Silvia	Elva Kalb	Female vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	BVE-51032	10-in.	3/15/1929	Mariä Wiegenlied	Mrs. William H. Greene	Female vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	BVE-51112	10-in.	4/1/1929	The virgin's slumber song	Martha Golden	Female vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	CVE-63627	12-in.	9/5/1930	Die Forelle (The trout)	Amelita Galli-Curci	Soprano vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	CVE-67792	12-in.	1/14/1931	Dream song	Elsie Baker ; Myrtle C. Eaver ; Lucy Isabelle Marsh	Female vocal duet, with piano	composer
Victor	BS-88972	10-in.	5/21/1935	Virgin's slumber song	Bruno Reibold	Instrumental ensemble	composer
Victor	BVE-89272	10-in.	4/8/1935	Maria Wiegenlied	Pearl E. Gehner	Female vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	LCS-100354	12-in. (33-1/3 rpm)	4/6/1936	Marias Wiegenlied	Martin W. Bush ; Mable Allen Smails	Female vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	BS-0927	10-in.	10/2/1936	Marias Wiegenlied	John De Blois Wack	Baritone vocal solo, with cello and piano	composer
Victor	BS-051839	10-in.	7/10/1940	The virgin's slumber song	Leo Rosenek ; Kerstin Thorborg	Contralto vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	D5RB-0721	10-in.	4/3/1945	The Virgin's slumber song	Macklin Marrow ; Blanche Thebom ; Victor String Orchestra	Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	[Trial 1915-04-01-03]	Not documented	4/1/1915	Wiegenlied	Donald MacBeath	Instrumental solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	140160	10-in.	12/3/1924	The Virgin's slumber song	Barbara Maurel	Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	W141951	10-in.	4/12/1926	Mariä Wiegenlied	Maria Kurenko	Soprano vocal solo, with piano	composer
Brunswick	10270-10271	10-in.	4/4/1923	Maria’s Weigenlied	Claire Dux	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	E29520	10-in.	Mar. 1929	Maria’s Wiegenlied	Edward Goll	Piano solo	composer
Brunswick	E19381-E19383	10-in.	5/27/1926	Maria’s Wiegenlied	Claire Dux ; Frederic Persson	Soprano vocal solo, with piano	composer
Brunswick	1767½bm	10-in.	1930	Gloria in excelsis Deo	Paul Hebestreit	Organ solo	composer
Edison	8442	10-in.	5/5/1922	Standchen	Frieda Hempel	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Gramophone	0RA880	10-in.	11/14/1935	Mariä Wiegenlied	Barnabáš von Géczy Orchester	Jazz/dance band	composer
Gramophone	BR1362	10-in.	5/27/1927	Allein Gott in der höh’ sei her’	Alfred Sittard	Organ solo	arranger

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Reger, Max," accessed November 1, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102535.

Reger, Max. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 1, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102535.

"Reger, Max." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 1 November 2024.