Reger: Songs - Volume 5 (1906–1916)
Complete Edition Series II - Volume 5
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- Composer: Max Reger (1873-1916)
- Editors: Knud Breyer, Stefan König (1963-)
- Format: Full Score – Hardcover
- Instrumentation: Piano, Voice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Work Language: German
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- Size: 10.2 x 13.0 inches
- Pages: 332
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
The fifth volume of the "Songs and choral Works" module of the Reger-Werkausgabe (RWA) comprises the songs composed between June 1906 and May 1915 as well as the vocal scores of the orchestral songs An die Hoffnung (To hope), Op. 124, and Hymnus der Liebe (Hymn of love), Op. 136. Alongside additional songs from Schlichte Weisen (Simple ways), Op. 76 (Volumes III-VI), this new volume features occasional and commissioned works. Reger wrote the song collections opus 98 and 104 for the publishers N. Simrock and Otto Forberg; other individual pieces were specially written for magazines and music albums (WoO VII 38-41) or were personal gifts (WoO VII 42-44).
The Three Duets, Op. 111a, for soprano and alto, were composed for a concert. Some of the works have a biographical background: The two final volumes of Schlichte Weisen (Simple ways) are settings of children's poems for Reger's two adopted daughters, Christa and Lotti, while he wrote the Fünf neue Kinderlieder (Five new children's songs), Op. 142, for his godchildren.
Content
- Songs WoO VII/38 and VII/39
- Four Songs, Op. 97
- Five Songs, Op. 98
- Abendfrieden WoO VII/40
- Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76 vol. III (nos. 31–36)
- Six Songs, Op. 104
- Songs WoO VII/41 and VII/42
- Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76 vol. IV (nos. 37–43)
- Three Duets, Op. 111a
- An Zeppelin WoO VI/21
- Es soll mein Gebet dich tragen! WoO VII/43
- Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76 vol. V (nos. 44–51)
- An die Hoffnung, Op. 124
- Three poems by Elsa Asenijeff WoO VII/44
- Night Thoughts WoO V/7
- Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76 vol. VI (nos. 52–60)
- Hymnus der Liebe, Op. 136
- Five new Children's Songs, Op. 142
Appendix
- Das Wölklein, Op. 76, No. 33 – First version
- Mutter, tote Mutter, Op. 104, No. 3 – Version of the engraver's copy
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Reger: Songs - Volume 5 (1906–1916)
