(Johann Baptist Joseph) Maximilian Reger

Synopsis

German composer, organist, and teacher

• Born on March, 19 1873 in Brand, nr Bayreuth, Germany
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• 1874 moved to Weiden, his father taught him music in his youth
• 1884 He took piano lessons from Adalber Lindner
• 1888 he decided to pursue a career in music
• 1886-1889 he was deputy organist to Lindner
• 1890 moved to Wiesbaden to study with Reimann at the Wiesbaden Conservatory
• 1890 Reimann, impressed with Reger's first Violin Sonata, recommended him to be a teacher in theory at the Conservatory
• 1890-6 Reger developed musical contacts with people such as Richard Strauss, Eugen d'Albert and Busoni.
• 1896-7 Served in the military for a year
• 1898 Reger's had a breakdown and moved back to Weiden
• 1898 in Weiden he taught privately for his primary source of income
• 1898-1903 he composed some of his fantasias on chorale melodies
• 1901 moved to Munich
• 1902 married Elsa von Bercken
• Died on May 11, 1916 in Leipzig, Germany

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