Morgengesang (REGER MAX)

2016 marks the first centenary of the death of Max Reger. In addition to his best-known field of creativity - organ music - his choral compositions form another major part of his oeuvre.This edition contains a selection of his sacred a cappella choral works. Their scoring, level of difficulty and length make them ideal for choirs who are wary of tackling the large-scale op. 110 motets. For the first time, the selection of works includes the previously unpublished 'Acht Grabgesänge? (1900). The pieces are arranged in chronological order, culminating in the well-known cycle of 'Acht geistliche Gesänge? op. 138 (1914).Contents- 'Tantum ergo Sacramentum? (1895)- 'Maria Himmelsfreud!? (1899-1900)- 'Acht Grabgesänge? (ca. 1900)- 'Acht Marienlieder? op. 61d (1901)- 'Sechs Trauergesänge? op. 61g (1901)- 'Palmsonntagmorgen? (1902)- 'Vier Kirchengesänge? (1904)- 'Easter motet: Lasset uns den Herren preisen? (1911)- 'Abschiedslied? (1914)- 'Acht geistliche Gesänge? op. 138 (1914)The EditorMichael Chizzali has been a scholarly assistant at the Institute of Musicology in Weimar-Jena (Germany) since 2014. His dissertation on Reger's contemporary, the Tyrolean composer Josef Gasser (1873-1957), was published in Innsbruck in 2014.- All extant sources consulted- Edition for the first centenary of Reger's death- Cross-section of Reger's music for a cappella choir- Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella