Max Reger

Reger-Werkausgabe 2/6: Songs with orchestral accompaniment

Volume 6 of the series “Songs and Choral Works” features Max Reger’s works for solo voice and orchestra written between 1912 and 1915. In addition to the only two original compositions – An die Hoffnung, Op. 124, after a poem by Friedrich Hölderlin and Hymnus der Liebe, Op. 136, based on an excerpt from the epic Vom Geschlecht der Promethiden by Ludwig Jacobowski – this volume includes all of Reger’s orchestral versions of his most successful songs such as Des Kindes Gebet, Op. 76 (No. 22), Glückes genug, Op. 37 (No. 3), Das Dorf, Op. 97 (No. 1), Aeolsharfe, Op. 75 (No. 11), and Mariä Wiegenlied, Op. 76 (No. 52).

In January 2008 the Max-Reger-Institut (MRI) in Karlsruhe began publishing a scholarly-critical edition of the works of Reger (RWA), supported by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. As a Hybrid Edition, it is exploring new approaches in editorial techniques. The digital component for this volume will be published in an online portal.