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(Maks Ra’-ger) 1873–1916 German composer A student of Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), Reger bridged the divide between nineteenth-century Brahmsian academicism and Liszt’s ‘New German School’, with music that combined Bachian counterpoint and Wagnerian chromaticism. Reger was among the most frequently performed composers at Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performance. After army service, he worked in Munich (1901) then as a professor at ...

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was never a bumpkin. Many distinguished composers have taken it very seriously, among them Tchaikovsky, Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868), Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), César Franck (1822–90), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Max Reger (1873–1916), and the lesser-known (though famous to organists) Siegfried Karg Elert (1877–1933), who not only wrote a book on the art of registration on the harmonium but toured as a ...

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of melody. This broad synthesis of influences, allied to his uniquely flexible sense of rhythm, created many new possibilities for the composers who came after him, notably Reger and Schoenberg. Recommended Recording: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Vienna PO (cond) Carlos Kleiber (Deutsche Grammophon) Johannes Brahms: Works Symphonies: No. 1 in c (1862–76); No. 2 in ...

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Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Moscow PO (cond) Kyrill Kondrashin, LSO (cond) Anatole Fistoulari (Decca) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | Max Reger | Late Romantic | Classical ...