Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition

by Anderson,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780754630753
• ISBN10: 0754630757
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Max Reger (1873-1916) is perhaps best-known for his organ music. This quickly assumed a prominent place in the repertory of German organists due in large measure to the efforts of Reger's contemporary Karl Straube (1873-1950). This book evaluates the significance of the relationship between the composer and organist using primary source materials such as autograph performing manuscripts, reviews, programmes, letters and archival sources from contemporary organ building. The result is a much enhanced understanding of Reger in terms of performance practice and reception history, and a re-examination of Straube and, more broadly, of Leipzig as a musical centre during this period.

Author Biography

Christopher Anderson is Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory at the Department of Music, University of North Dakota, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
1 Reger, Straube, and the Organ: Aspects of the Relationship, 1898-1916	9	(32)
Max Reger, the 'potent genius'	10	(5)
Karl Straube, the 'scholarly intelligence'	15	(13)
Reger, Straube, and the beginnings of collaboration	28	(13)
2 Reger's Music and Straube's Musicianship, 1898-1918	41	(88)
Questions and evidence	41	(17)
Straube's musical sense and his playing of Reger	58	(39)
Issues of influence	97	(32)
3 Reger's Music under Straube's Editorship, 1903-1938	129	(56)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Schule des Triospiels (1903)	130	(4)
Max Reger: Drei Orgelstücke op. 59/1-9 (1912)	134	(15)
Max Reger: Präludien und Fugen (1919)	149	(2)
Max Reger: Phantasie über den Choral 'Ein feste Burg' op. 21(1938)	151	(5)
Karl Matthaei: Vom Orgelspiel	156	(4)
'Lighter paper for lady cigarette smokers': thoughts on a complete Reger edition	160	(25)
4 Reger's Music at the Leipzig Conservatory and Church Music Institute, 1907-1948	185	(84)
Reger and Straube: relations to Leipzig	185	(13)
'The soul of the German people': Straube and a nationalist organ repertory	198	(15)
Teaching and performance within Straube's Leipzig curriculum	213	(6)
The Leipzig Conservatory organ and the implications of its history	219	(50)
Appendices
1 Documented Performances of Reger's Music at the Leipzig Conservatory, or at Concerts Sponsored by the Conservatory, 1905-1949	269	(16)
2 Documented Performances of Organ Music at the Leipzig Conservatory, or at Concerts Sponsored by the Conservatory, 1900-1950	285	(38)
3 Documented Performances of Reger's Music at the Motetten of St. Thomas Church/Leipzig, 1903-1914	323	(6)
4 Documented Performances of Organ Music at the Motetten of St. Thomas Church/Leipzig, 1903-1914	329	(22)
5 Karl Straube Performs, 1893-1922	351	(34)
6 The Concert Hall Organ of the Leipzig Conservatory, 1887-1944	385	(4)
Bibliography	389	(34)
Index	423