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It was first performed in Der Einsiedler The Hermit Op. The German text is a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff, beginning "Komm' Trost der Welt, du stille Nacht" Come, consolation of the world, you quiet night. The composition was published in after Reger's death by N. History Reger composed the work in Jena, dating it 15 July ,[1] setting a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff. The Max-Reger-Institute MRI is a musicological research institute and archive in Karlsruhe, Germany, dedicated to the work of the composer Max Reger, a representative of German music around the turn of the 20th century.
An associated foundation, the Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, is named after his wife, Elsa Reger, who founded the foundation and the institute. It has a substantial archive of manuscripts and documents related to Reger. A main objective was to collect the autographs which had been dispersed during two world wars, and to establish an archive as a base for research.
In it moved to the Karlsburg in Durlach. It collaborates with the Musikhochschule and with the Baden State Library.
Reger composed the work in It was published in and first performed in Aachen on 18 January by the municipal choir and orchestra, conducted by Eberhard Schwickerath. He rather turned to contemporary writers, such as Jugendstil poets. The texts are poems by three poets: Vier Tondichtungen nach A. He composed them in Meiningen in Background and history While tone poems were a common genre around , including many works by Richard Strauss, Reger typically wrote more abstract music. He dedicated the work to Julius Buths.
I can surely say without any arrogance that since J. Bach, no such collection has been published! Psalm The th Psalm , Op.
Reger began composing the work in for the th anniversary of Jena University. Reger completed the composition in Reger structured the text in four movements, as a choral symphony. He scored it for a four-part choir with often divided voices, a large symphony orchestra, and organ. He requested additional brass players for the climax in the last movement when four trumpets and four trombones play the melody of Luther's chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". Reger used both late-Romantic features of harmony and dynamics, and polyphony in the Baroque tradition, culminating Three chorale fantasias Drei Choralphantasien , Op.
He composed the fantasias on three chorales in September Gott zu loben bleibe meine Seelenfreud". Straube and others regarded especially No. He later produced a version for two pianos, Op. Its second part appears again in the oboe and clarinet supported by high strings, and then is again repeated by the string section.
Eight variations follow; then the fugue, in which the subject appears first in first violins before being answered after eight bars by the second violins. The piece concludes with a final, forceful statement of the theme by trumpets. Movements The work, which takes about 33 minutes to perform, consists of the following movements: Andante grazioso Variation 1.
Reger had composed Requiem settings before: The setting is of the Latin Requiem, the Catholic service for the dead, but the work remained a fragment and was eventually designated the Lateinisches Requiem Latin Requiem , Op. Simrock in , after the composer's death, with another choral composition, Der Einsiedler The Hermit , Op. He composed it in Leipzig in and dedicated it to Gertrud Fischer-Maretzki, the soloist in the first performance.
It was published by Ed. Bock in Berlin the same year. History Reger composed the work in Leipzig in ,[2][3] where he worked as a professor at the conservatory. Bock in Berlin, the vocal score in July, the parts in September. He composed it in Meiningen in and dedicated it to Anna Erler-Schnaudt, the singer of the first performance. It was published by Edition Peters the same year. The composer conducted the Meininger Hofkapelle. The song was published by Edition Peters the same year, the vocal score in September, the parts in November.
He composed them between and Mein Odem ist schwach My spirit is weak , [2] No. Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht! O Lord, chasten me not , [3] No. The text is taken from the Book of Job Job The motet was first performed on 13 November by the Thomanerchor, conducted by Kurt Kranz. The German text is a poem by an anonymous poet, derived from a Volkslied folk song. It is often performed in Advent. History Reger composed the motets of Op. The Reger-Chor is a German-Belgian choir. It was founded in Wiesbaden in and has been conducted by Gabriel Dessauer in Wiesbaden.
Since it has grown to Regerchor-International in a collaboration with the organist Ignace Michiels of the St. Salvator's Cathedral of Bruges. The choir performs an annual concert both in Germany and Belgium of mostly sacred choral music for choir and organ. Concerts have taken place regularly in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and in the cathedral of Bruges in its series "Kathedraalconcerten". The choir performed additional concerts at other churches of the two countries and in the Concertgebouw of Bruges.
Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, since Der Mensch lebt und bestehet, Op. The German text is a poem by Matthias Claudius, beginning with "Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit" Man liveth and endureth but a short time. He composed it in on Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". Straube believed in Reger as a composer and premiered several of his works from manuscript. This article presents a complete catalog of original compositions by Ferruccio Busoni, including a large number of early works, most of which remain unpublished. The earliest preserved pieces were written when he was barely seven years old.
Over of the total of original compositions were produced before the age of twenty. For a more selective list of recorded works, see Ferruccio Busoni discography. Busoni also produced a number of cadenzas, transcriptions, and editions. For a complete list see List of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni. Introductory notes Opus numbers Busoni's opus numbers are confusing. Initially he numbered each work as he wrote it. Later he started again from Op.
Sechs Lieder Six songs , Op. He composed them in Weiden and Wiesbaden between and , and dedicated them to Elisabeth Riemann. History Reger composed the first song in Weiden in , and the others in and in Wiesbaden[1] where he studied at the conservatory from September , composition with Hugo Riemann.
Hugo Laubach, probably before May Elsa Reger 25 October — 3 May was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer Max Reger, whose memory she kept alive by founding an archive, the Max-Reger-Institute and a foundation, all dedicated to him and his work. The foundation is now named after her. She met Max Reger in , when she spent a summer vacation in Wiesbaden, where she took voice lessons with him. In she divorced her husband, but first rejected Reger's courting.
As she was divorced and a Protestant, the Catholic Reger was excommunicated. Elsa followed the composer, whose fame increased, to Leipzig, Meiningen and Jena. She took care of his students as the Regermutter Reger mother. The couple adopted two daugh The following is a list of compositions for organ from the Western tradition of classical organ music. The Cello Sonata in F minor, Op.
History Reger studied at the Wiesbaden Conservatory from to , composition with Hugo Riemann. This is a list of classical repertoire for two violins — either unaccompanied, with orchestra, or with piano. Two solo violins Milton Babbitt: Grand Duo Concertante, Op. Violin Duets, 72 pieces for two violins - I. Sonata for Two Violins, Op. Kanonische Variationen Arthur Honegger: Sonatine Drago Kocakov: Intimus Allan Pettersson: Sonata for two violins in C, Op.
He composed them in Munich in and They were published by C. Peters in Leipzig in September History and movements The pieces are character pieces of medium difficulty, as a contrast to his major organ works. Reger had written such works already as a student in Wiesbaden.
Sechs Lieder Six songs , Op. Compositions by Arnold Schoenberg Revolvy Brain revolvybrain. With the support of her husband, professor of musicology Peter Krams, she recorded Member feedback about Alexander Albrecht: Simrock in , after the composer's death, with another choral composition, Der Einsiedler The Hermit , Op. He gave up the court position in for health reasons.
He turned to the organ in Weiden. On a request of the publisher Henri Hinrichsen of C. Peters, Reger composed 15 pieces in Munich in Reger used the three still unpublished pieces Fughette, Gigue, Intermezzo and composed additional nine pieces in , to form a similar set of works that can be played in sequence or individually. Peters in Leipzig in September , in two books Heft of six pieces each. Reger dedicated the pieces of H This is a list of compositions by Swan Hennessy — Hennessy was an American composer of Irish family background who spent most of his career from about in France.
He was a most accomplished composer of chamber music in many diverse instrumentations and of piano music. The following is a list of compositions in a table sorted by opus number. This is followed by a list sorted by genre. List of compositions by opus number The following table shows a chronological list, with all known opus numbers in the second column. All the works below have been published, the location of any manuscripts is not known. There are three potential explanations for the missing opus numbers numbers 1, 13, 15, 16, 20, 22, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 37, 38, 73, 76, 77, 78, This is a compilation of pieces for cello and pipe organ.
See also the entries on cello and the List of compositions for cello and orchestra, List of compositions for cello and piano and List of solo cello pieces. Ordering is by surname of composer. Nikolaus Maler Adagio, from Violin Concerto no. Harnoy Air, from Suite in D major trans. Ernst-Thilo Kalke Arioso, from Cantata no. Peters in Leipzig in August of that year, in two books Heft of six pieces each. History The pieces are character pieces of medium difficulty, as a contrast to his major organ works.
Peters to find out if he was ready to print in piano works, songs or chamber music. Henri answered that would prefer organ works easy to play "leichte Spielbarkeit". The Responsories by the German composer Max Reger are 20 short settings of mostly biblical texts in English, to be used as responsories in Lutheran church services. Composed in , they were first published in Philadelphia in as The Responsories. History Reger composed the responsories in [1] to English texts for Luther D.
Reed, a professor of liturgy who wanted to use contemporary music in services of the American Lutheran Church. Archer travelled to Germany and requested a setting by Reger of the texts on Reed's behalf. Reger, who spoke no English, is reported to have asked Archer for a detailed translation, explaining the meaning of single words and marking stressed syllables.
The compositions were completed in September The organ repertoire is among the largest for any solo musical instrument. Because of the organ's or pipe organ's prominence in worship in Western Europe from the Middle Ages on, a significant portion of organ repertoire is sacred in nature. The organ's suitability for improvisation by a single performer is well adapted to this liturgical role and has allowed many blind organists to achieve fame; it also accounts for the relatively late emergence of written compositions for the instrument in the Renaissance.
Although instruments are still disallowed in most Eastern churches, organs have found their way into a few synagogues as well as secular venues where organ recitals take place. Renaissance The earliest surviving keyboard compositions keyboard music was not instrument-specific until the sixteenth century are from England Robertsbridge Codex c. The organ is specified in Marco Antonio Cavazzoni's Recerchari, motetti, canzoni [ One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram, the motif has been used by countless composers, especially after the Bach Revival in the first half of the 19th century.
BACH motif's cruciform melody, depicted at least as early as the 19th century, but not known to have been used by Bach himself Johann Gottfried Walther's Musicalisches Lexikon contains the only biographical sketch of Johann Sebastian Bach published during the composer's lifetime.
There the motif is mentioned thus: He composed the first five of them in Berchtesgaden in June and July , and the last one in Weiden in August that year. Dedicated to different people, they were published by Jos. Aibl Verlag in Munich the same year. They noted that he chose texts not by literary significance but for their theme and mood. This list of compositions by Robert Simpson is a list of the musical compositions of Robert Simpson sorted by genre. Symphonies Robert Simpson is said to have written and destroyed four Symphonies one of which even used serial procedures before his first published Symphony.
He submitted his official Symphony No. Now come, Saviour of the heathen is a Lutheran chorale of with words written by Martin Luther, based on Veni redemptor gentium by Ambrose, and a melody based on its plainchant. It was printed in the Erfurt Enchiridion of The song was the prominent hymn for the first Sunday of Advent for centuries. It was used widely in organ settings by Protestant Baroque composers, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach, who also composed two church cantatas beginning with the hymn. Later settings include works by Max Reger and Brian Easdale.
English version include "Savior of the nations, come" by William Morton Reynolds, published in History Martin Luther wrote the text of "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", possibly for the Advent of as a paraphrase of a passage, Veni redemptor gentium, from the Latin Christmas hymn "Intende qui reges Israel" by Ambrose. Biography Haas's father was the organist at a local church; she learned at age seven to play the pedal parts during services.
She studied music religiously, in a culture of religious music. With the support of her husband, professor of musicology Peter Krams, she recorded This is a list of compositions for cello and piano.
This includes sonatas as well as other short pieces for cello and piano. This is a selected list of musical compositions that feature a prominent part for the natural horn or the French horn, sorted by era and then by composer. This is a list of musical compositions for violin and orchestra. See entries for concerto and violin concerto for a description of related musical forms. This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks.
His works are initially listed by Opus number Op. Other features shown are translation of titles, key , scoring, year of composition, genre , information about texts and their authors, a link to the Max-Reger-Institute , which provides detailed information about times of composition, performance and publishing, and a link to the free score when available. Reger was a German composer, born in Brand in He studied music theory in Sondershausen , then piano and theory, in Wiesbaden. A pianist himself, he composed works for both piano and organ.
Reger returned to his parental home in , where he composed his first work for choir and orchestra, Hymne an den Gesang Hymn to singing , Op. He moved to Munich in In he was appointed musical director at the Leipzig University and professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig. He gave up the court position in for health reasons. In response to World War I , he thought in already to compose a choral work to commemorate the fallen of the war.
He began to set the Latin Requiem but abandoned the work as a fragment. He composed in Jena the Hebbel Requiem for soloist, choir and orchestra. Reger assigned opus numbers to major works himself.
Reger's works with an opus number are listed first, then works designated as WoO work without opus number. Details to compositions follow, such as song titles and names of poets for a collection of songs. The scoring is given if it cannot be recognized from the title or the genre: When the opus number provides a link, it leads to more details about a work, such as the titles, markings and keys of its parts.
The last column provides two link for reference, when available: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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