In 1911 he became conductor of the court orchestra at Meiningen. He was highly esteemed in Germany for his organ music, which exhibits extreme polyphonic complexity and a consummate technique. Among his important compositions for the organ areFantasy and Fugue in C Minor(1898) andFantasy and ...
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 ...
Max Reger was an extraordinarily gifted musician, widely respected as a composer, pianist, organist, conductor and teacher. A master of polyphonic and harmonic writing, he carried on the hallowed Classical and Romantic schools of composition. Because he wrote major works in nearly every genre, his...
He taught composition in Munich and Leipzig, and was the conductor of the court orchestra in Meiningen from 1911 to 1914. All genres except opera are represented in his work. His instrumental music is for the most part not program music. One of the rare exceptions is the Böcklin Suite, ...