SKU: CA.5280900
Composed by Max Reger.
Edited by Stefan Konig,
Dennis Ried. Gesamt- und
Werkausgaben: Max Reger.
Hybrid Edition of works.
Reger, Max: Reger Hybrid
Edition of Works, Vol.
II/2: Songs II
(1889-1899). Full score
(complete edition /
selected edition).
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.5280900).
ISBN
9790007246525.
With the songs Reger
wrote between summer 1889
and spring 1901, he made
his mark in the music
world. His style
displayed a harmonic and
melodic intransigence
which challenged,
fascinated, and irritated
performers and audiences
in equal measure. The
song collections which
Reger compiled became
ever more extensive: opp.
35 and 37 contained six
and five songs, opp. 43
and 48 eight and seven,
and opp. 51 and 55 twelve
and fifteen songs. As
well as this, he wrote
some individual pieces
for inclusion in the Neue
Musik-Zeitung (WoO
VII/23-29).
In his
assiduous search for
texts, Reger turned to
contemporary lyric poetry
with its plurality of
styles. The poems which
he set were by
representatives of the
literary Jugendstil (art
nouveau) and
impressionist movements,
including Otto Julius
Bierbaum, Detlev von
Liliencron, and Richard
Dehmel. Here, Reger's
musical hallmarks were
intensity and subtlety of
feeling, a desire for
intimacy, and a modern
emotional language. This
corresponded with the
concentration on the
modern declamatory song
following on from Hugo
Wolf, to whom op. 51 is
dedicated. In addition,
Reger ventured to set
texts which Richard
Strauss had also set
previously, in the
process finding different
solutions in mood and
tonal
language.
I
n January 2008 the
Max-Reger-Institut (MRI)
in Karlsruhe began
publishing a
scholarly-critical
edition of the works of
Reger (RWA). This is
supported by the Mainz
Academy of Sciences and
Literature, and as a
Hybrid Edition is
exploring new approaches
in editorial
techniques.
For
the first time, in this
edition the digital
component for this volume
will no longer be
supplied on a data
storage device, but
published in an online
portal.
Co
ntent
Sechs Lieder Op.
35
Funf Gesange Op.
37
Lieder WoO VII/21
und VII/22
Acht Lieder
Op. 43
Sieben Lieder
Op. 48
Lieder WoO
VII/23-29
Zwolf Lieder
Op. 51
Funfzehn Lieder
Op.
55
Appendix
Tra
nspositions.