Max Reger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Reger

German composer, pianist and conductor

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1873

Place of Birth: Brand, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 11-May-1916

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, musician, organist, university teacher, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.
He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, as a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and as a music director at the court of Duke Georg II 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).