Nachtlied, Op. 138, No. 3
Max Reger
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Browse piano sheets by Max Reger on Zen Virtual Piano. Max Reger was a composer who also appeared as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. Brand in Bavaria was his birthplace, and he was the first child of Katharina Philomena and Josef Reger, who taught school and made music as an amateur. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in 1874. From 1884 to 1889 Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father's students. A father who taught school and played music, beside lessons from his own student, may suggest music ran through Reger's early home. His uncle Johann Baptist Ulrich invited him to the Bayreuth Festival in 1888. There Reger heard two Richard Wagner operas, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal. The experience left a deep impression and made Reger decide to pursue a music career. From 1890 to 1893 he studied at Sondershausen and Wiesbaden and taught piano, organ and theory. Wagner's operas at Bayreuth in 1888, beside teaching by 1890, may point to a move from audience member to music teacher. Karl Straube premiered many of Reger's organ works, such as the Three chorale fantasias, Op. 52. In September 1901 Reger moved to Munich. His first season there brought ten concerts, in which he took part as organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. In 1902 Reger married, and the money he earned from publishers, concerts and private lessons made that possible. Because his wife Elsa was a divorced Protestant, he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Straube's premieres of the organ works and Reger's own concerts as an organist in Munich both put the organ before audiences. Reger gave up the post of university music director in 1908. In 1911 he took the post of court conductor with the Meiningen court orchestra, and he kept teaching in Leipzig. Long before that, he had formulated the sentence that Meiningen was the only orchestra he wanted. Nachtlied dates from 1914, when Reger wrote it in Meiningen. It appeared in print in 1916, after his death, as the third piece in Acht geistliche Gesänge (Eight Sacred Songs). It is tempting to link the two Wagner operas heard at Bayreuth in 1888 with the Meiningen court conductor post of 1911, since both opera and orchestra figure in his career.
Browse piano sheets by Max Reger on Zen Virtual Piano.
Max Reger was a composer who also appeared as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. Brand in Bavaria was his birthplace, and he was the first child of Katharina Philomena and Josef Reger, who taught school and made music as an amateur. The devout Catholic family moved to Weiden in 1874. From 1884 to 1889 Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father's students. A father who taught school and played music, beside lessons from his own student, may suggest music ran through Reger's early home.
His uncle Johann Baptist Ulrich invited him to the Bayreuth Festival in 1888. There Reger heard two Richard Wagner operas, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal. The experience left a deep impression and made Reger decide to pursue a music career. From 1890 to 1893 he studied at Sondershausen and Wiesbaden and taught piano, organ and theory. Wagner's operas at Bayreuth in 1888, beside teaching by 1890, may point to a move from audience member to music teacher.
Karl Straube premiered many of Reger's organ works, such as the Three chorale fantasias, Op. 52. In September 1901 Reger moved to Munich. His first season there brought ten concerts, in which he took part as organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. In 1902 Reger married, and the money he earned from publishers, concerts and private lessons made that possible. Because his wife Elsa was a divorced Protestant, he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Straube's premieres of the organ works and Reger's own concerts as an organist in Munich both put the organ before audiences.
Reger gave up the post of university music director in 1908. In 1911 he took the post of court conductor with the Meiningen court orchestra, and he kept teaching in Leipzig. Long before that, he had formulated the sentence that Meiningen was the only orchestra he wanted. Nachtlied dates from 1914, when Reger wrote it in Meiningen. It appeared in print in 1916, after his death, as the third piece in Acht geistliche Gesänge (Eight Sacred Songs). It is tempting to link the two Wagner operas heard at Bayreuth in 1888 with the Meiningen court conductor post of 1911, since both opera and orchestra figure in his career.
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Max Reger was a composer who also appeared as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist.
Reger took piano and organ lessons from Adalbert Lindner, one of his father's students, from 1884 to 1889.
Reger moved to Munich in September 1901 and appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist during his first season there.
In 1911 Reger took the post of court conductor with the Meiningen court orchestra, and he kept teaching in Leipzig.