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182 Pages
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Routledge
182 Pages
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Routledge
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Max Reger (1873-1916) was a celebrated German composer, performer on piano and organ, and conductor. Well known for his compositions for keyboards and orchestra, Reger worked during the crucial decades when Western music transformed itself from the misty veil of Romanticism and Impressionism to the more hard-edged modernism that would prevail in the 20th century. Less well known are his writings... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Defense of the Beiträge zur Modulationslehre of 1903; Chapter 1 I Request the Floor!; Chapter 2 “More Light”; Part 2 The “Draeseke Controversy” of 1906; Chapter 3 Music and Progress; Chapter 4 An Open Letter; Chapter 5 Hugo Riemann: Degeneration and Regeneration in Music; Chapter 6 Degeneration and Regeneration in Music; Part 3 Reception; Chapter 7 Hugo Wolf's Artistic Legacy; Chapter 8 On April 1; Chapter 9 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Songs Without Words; Chapter 10 ::, On Johann Sebastian Bach; Chapter 11 ::, On Richard Strauss; Part 4 “Analyses” of Reger's Works for the Festivals of the Allgemeiner Deutscher musikverein; Chapter 12 String Quartet op. 74 in D minor; Chapter 13 Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Joh. Seb. Bach for Piano, Two Hands op. 81; and Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Four Hands op. 86; Chapter 14 Psalm 100 for Chorus, Orchestra, and Organ op. 106; Chapter 15 Quartet for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano op. 113; Chapter 16 Römischer Triumphgesang for Men's Chorus and Orchestra op. 126;
Biography
Christopher Anderson
"This book is an important addition to the growing scholarship on Max Reger....[and] a very enlightening read."--NOTES
