Selected Writings of Max Reger

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Introduction
Part 1 Defense of the Beiträge zur Modulationslehre of 1903
Chapter 1 I Request the Floor!
Chapter 2 “More Light”
Part 2 The “Draeseke Controversy” of 1906
Chapter 3 Music and Progress
Chapter 4 An Open Letter
Chapter 5 Hugo Riemann: Degeneration and Regeneration in Music
Chapter 6 Degeneration and Regeneration in Music
Part 3 Reception
Chapter 7 Hugo Wolf's Artistic Legacy
Chapter 8 On April 1
Chapter 9 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Songs Without Words
Chapter 10 ::, On Johann Sebastian Bach
Chapter 11 ::, On Richard Strauss
Part 4 “Analyses” of Reger's Works for the Festivals of the Allgemeiner Deutscher musikverein
Chapter 12 String Quartet op. 74 in D minor
Chapter 13 Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Joh. Seb. Bach for Piano, Two Hands op. 81
and Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Four Hands op. 86
Chapter 14 Psalm 100 for Chorus, Orchestra, and Organ op. 106
Chapter 15 Quartet for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano op. 113
Chapter 16 Römischer Triumphgesang for Men's Chorus and Orchestra op. 126

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Max Reger (1873-1916) was a celebrated German composer, performer on piano and organ, and conductor. Well known for his compositions for keyboards and orchestra, Reger worked during the crucial decades when Western music transformed itself from the misty veil of Romanticism and Impressionism to the more hard-edged modernism that would prevail in the 20th century. Less well known are his writings about music and the composer's craft. Although he wrote a major book on music theory published in 1903 (and translated into English a year later), his extended essays on composition, his fellow composers, and analysis have never appeared before in English. Christopher Anderson, a noted Reger scholar, has gone back to original manuscripts as well as the published versions of these writings to produce definitive new texts. Additionally, Anderson has written an opening essay placing Reger's writings and music in the context of his time.

This volume will appeal strongly to those interested in the Late Romantic era, musical composition and aesthetics, and of course those interested in the music and life of Reger

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Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association

This book is an important addition to the growing scholarship on Max Reger....[and] a very enlightening read

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