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| Name | Max Reger - Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue (Op. 127) |
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| Video Discription | Key: E minor Dedication: Karl Straube The work is structured in three sections: the introduction, a passacaglia with 26 variations that build in intensity towards the double fugue. The organist David Goode wrote that the introduction begins with dense chromaticism and flourishing figuration. The passacaglia is based on a theme which uses eleven of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. The 26 variations are grouped in the sections: a first, intensifying speed and texture, a second as a meditative centre, and a third, again intensifying towards the fugue. He notes Reger's "effective control of pace and excitement". The Canadian composer Healey Willan heard the work, played by his friend Dalton Baker. When Baker said "that such a work could only have been composed by a 'German philosophical mind'" Willan was challenged to write a composition of the same structure, completed in 1916. Reger composed the work in 1913. He wrote the organ piece with the intent for it to be performed for organ concerts, rather than for church services, called "in grand style". Reger composed the work on a commission for the opening celebrations of a new concert hall in Breslau, the Jahrhunderthalle (Centennial Hall). Reger revived organ concert music which had become unfashionable. Karl Straube was an organist and a friend, able to play technically difficult music, and to influence the composition (the markings for expression are believed to have been influenced by him). The first performance happened in Breslau on 24 September 1913, where Straube played. Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger, commonly known as Max Reger, was born in Germany in 1873. He started composing chamber music and lieder from a young age, then he became a concert pianist and a teacher and wrote for piano and organ. In 1901 he moved to Munich, where is fame started rising, and in 1902 he married Elsa von Bercken and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, since she was a divorced Protestant. Thanks to his friendship with Karl Straube, he directed the Leipzig University Church and taught at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig in 1907-1908. In 1911 he became Music director at the court of Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen - position he held until 1914, when he suffered a breakdown due to his problems there. He moved with the family to Jena, commuting once a week to Leipzig for teaching. Reger died of heart attack while in Leipzig in 1916. Performer: Ludger Lohmann Original audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhUwwDcfY14 Score: https://imslp.org/wiki/Introduction%2C_Passacaglia_und_Fuge%2C_Op.127_(Reger%2C_Max) Pa7PKyaOOrc |
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