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Max Reger

1873 - 1916

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Reger is the 176th most popular composer (down from 163rd in 2019), the 676th most popular biography from Germany (down from 610th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Composer.

Max Reger is most famous for his work in the field of musicology. He was a German composer and musicologist who was also a professor at the University of Munich.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Reger ranks 176 out of 1,451. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gian Carlo Menotti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, Luciano Berio, and Henri Vieuxtemps. After him are Giuseppe Torelli, Francesco Cavalli, Siegfried Wagner, Gustav Holst, Philip Glass, and François-Adrien Boieldieu.

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Among people born in 1873, Max Reger ranks 22. Before him are Alfred Jarry, Karl Schwarzschild, Spyridon Louis, Antonie Pannekoek, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Julius Martov. After him are Alexander Bogdanov, G. E. Moore, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Francisco I. Madero, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, and Kyösti Kallio. Among people deceased in 1916, Max Reger ranks 30. Before him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Charles de Foucauld, Karl Schwarzschild, Enrique Granados, Eduard Strauss, and Émile Verhaeren. After him are Vilhelm Hammershøi, Elisabeth of Wied, Percival Lowell, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Rubén Darío.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 676 out of 7,253. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Klaus Fuchs (1911), and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811). After him are Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Erwin Neher (1944), Felix Hoffmann (1868), and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 27. Before him are Paul Hindemith (1895), Max Bruch (1838), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Kurt Weill (1900), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732). After him are Louis Spohr (1784), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Carl Reinecke (1824).

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