Max Reger
- January 9, 2024
- Composer
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Max Reger Biography
| Name | Max Reger |
| Birthday | Mar 19 |
| Birth Year | 1873 |
| Place Of Birth | Brandis |
| Home Town | Saxony |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Parents | Philomena Reger, Joseph Reger |
| Children(s) | Lotti Reger, Christa Reger |
Max Reger is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on March 19, 1873 in Brandis, Saxony, Germany. He was a popular musician of his time, best known for using abstract forms in operas, fugues, and symphonies. He was a firm believer in absolute music, or music that is not explicitly about anything and is non-representational.
He considered himself to be part of the tradition He saw himself as being part of the tradition of Ludwig van Beethoven..
He was Hans von Koessler’s cousin.
Max Reger Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Composer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Max Reger is one of the richest Composer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Max Reger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His successful teaching career culminated in his 1911 appointment in the Court of Georg II, Duke de Saxe-Meiningen as Hofkapellmeister.
Many vocal works were produced by him, including Lieder and pieces for mixed- chorus and men’s chorus. He also created choral works in less than three decades.
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Facts & Trivia
Max Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Max Reger celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.
Top Facts about Max Reger
1. Reger was born in Brand, Bavaria and was the first child of Josef Reger
and his wife Katharina Philomena.
2. Reger studied piano and organ from the age of five, and was sent to Hugo
Riemann to study music theory.
3. Reger was excommunicated from the Catholic Church when he married a
Protestant.
4. Reger wrote mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano
and organ.
5. In 1907, Reger was appointed musical director at the Leipzig University
Church and professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig.
6. In 1911, Reger was appointed Hofkapellmeister (music director) at the
court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen.
7. Reger wrote a large amount of music for organ, most famously the
Benedictus from Op. 59 and his Fantasy and Fugue on BACH, Op. 46.
8. Reger composed many vocal works, including the Requiem, a setting of a
poem by Friedrich Hebbel dedicated to the soldiers of WWI.
9. Reger composed various secular works, including the Introduction,
Passacaglia and Fugue, Op. 127.
10. Reger was particularly attracted to the fugal form and combined the
harmonies of Liszt and Wagner with the counterpoint of Bach.
11. Reger was a prolific writer of solo piano and two-piano music, placing
him as a successor to Brahms in the central German tradition.
12. His works could be considered retrospective as they followed classical
and baroque compositional techniques such as fugue and continuo.
13. Reger had an acrimonious relationship with Rudolf Louis, the music critic
of the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, who usually had negative opinions of his
compositions.
14. Arnold Schoenberg was an admirer of Reger’s and considered him a genius.
15. A documentary about his life and works, Max Reger – Music as a perpetual
state, was released in 2002.