Max Reger

Max Reger
Reger at the piano, c. 1910
Born	(1873-03-19)19 March 1873 Brand, Bavaria, German Empire
Died	11 May 1916(1916-05-11) (aged 43) Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Education	Wiesbaden Conservatory Royal Conservatory in Leipzig
Occupations	pianist conductor composer professor
Organizations	Royal Conservatory in Leipzig Meiningen Court Theatre
Works	List of compositions
Spouse	Elsa Reger
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), Der 100. Psalm (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915).