Reger, Max

Preface

Reger, Max – Twelve Orchestral Songs (orchestrated by Max Reger)

(b. Brand in the Upper Palatinate, 19 March 1873 – d. Leipzig, 11 May 1916)

(instr. by M. Reger, 1913 – 1915)

Preface
Among the fourteen compositions for voice and orchestra by Max Reger, there are only two works which he created from scratch: An die Hoffnung op. 124 from 1912 and Hymnus der Liebe op. 136 from 1914, which are already available in the series Repertoire Explorer of Musikproduktion Höflich. The remaining twelve works, which are now available in this series, are orchestrations by Reger of his own piano songs from 1913–1915. The chronology appears as follows:

Aeolsharfe op. 75 No. 11 (1904, orchestrated 1913)
Das Dorf op. 97 No. 1 (1906, orchestrated 1913)
Aus den Himmelsaugen op. 98 No. 1 (1906, orchestrated 1913)
Glück op. 76 No. 16 (1905, orchestrated 1914)
Des Kindes Gebet op. 76 No. 22 (1905, orchestrated 1914)
Mittag op. 76 No. 35 (1907, orchestrated 1914)
Mein Traum op. 31 No. 5 (1898/99, orchestrated 1915)
Flieder op. 35 No. 4 (1899, orchestrated 1915)
Glückes Genug op. 37 No. 3 (1899, orchestrated 1915)
Wiegenlied op. 43 No. 5 (1899, orchestrated 1915)
Fromm op. 62 No. 11 (1901/02, orchestrated 1915)
Mariä Wiegenlied op. 76 No. 52 (1912, orchestrated 1915)

Reger discovered the genre for himself only in the last years of his life: in addition to his own songs, he arranged fifteen piano songs by Franz Schubert, seven by Johannes Brahms, four by Hugo Wolf and two by Edvard Grieg. Five orchestrated songs by Robert Schumann have not been preserved today as they were never printed. …

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