{"product_id":"809341-2","title":"Edgar Krapp - Reger: Organ Works, Vol. 7 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax Reger (1873–1916): Organ Works • 7  Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue • Seven Organ Pieces Max Reger owed his earlier interest in music to the example  and enthusiasm of his father, a schoolmaster and amateur musician, and his  early training to the town organist of Weiden, Adalbert Lindner. Reger was born  in 1873 at Brand in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. The following year the family moved  to Weiden and it was there that he spent his childhood and adolescence, embarking  on a course of training as a teacher when he left school. Lindner had sent  examples of Reger's early compositions to his own former teacher, Hugo Riemann,  who accepted Reger as a pupil, at first in Sondershausen and then, as his  assistant, in Wiesbaden.  Military service, which affected Reger's health and spirits, was followed by a  period at home with his parents in Weiden and a continuing series of  compositions, in particular for the organ, including a monumental series of  chorale fantasias and other compositions, often, it seems, designed to challenge  the technique of his friend Karl Straube, a noted performer of Reger's organ  music.In 1901 Reger moved to Munich,  where he spent the next six years. His position in musical life was in some ways  an uneasy one, since he was seen as a champion of absolute music and as  hostile, at this time, to programme music, to the legacy of Wagner and Liszt.  He was successful, however, as a pianist and was gradually able to find an  audience for his music. The period in Munich  brought the composition of his Sinfonietta, of chamber music, and of  fine sets of keyboard variations on themes by Bach and Beethoven, followed in  later years by his well-known variations on a theme by Mozart.1907 brought a change in Reger's life, when he took the  position of professor of composition at the University of Leipzig,  at a time when his music was reaching a much wider public. This was supported  by his own distinction as a performer and concert appearances in London, St Petersburg, the Netherlands, and Austria,  and throughout Germany.  In 1911 he was invited by the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen to become conductor of the  court orchestra, an ensemble established by Hans von Bülow and once conducted  by Richard Strauss, at the outset of his career. Reger held this position until  the beginning of the war, when the orchestra was disbanded, an event that  coincided with his own earlier intention to resign. He spent his final years  based in Jena,  but continuing his active career as a composer and as a concert performer. He  died in Leipzig in May 1916 on his way back from  a concert tour of the Netherlands.The music of Max Reger has a special position in organ  repertoire, and he is regarded by many as the greatest German composer of organ  music since Bach. A Catholic himself, he nevertheless drew on Lutheran tradition  and the rich store of chorales, the inspiration for chorale preludes, chorale  fantasias and other works. The\u003cp\u003eFantasia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFugue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Mourning Ode\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Psalm Of Thanks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Christmas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Passion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Easter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVI. Whit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVII. Victory Celebration\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55730256609665,"sku":"809341","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/61vc5Z696_2BL._SL1500_ef5b1500-b103-48ed-8c44-82541152f171.jpg?v=1779902955","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/809341-2","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}