Max Reger Phantasie und Fuge d-moll op 135b UrfassungUncut Cor van Wageningen WalckerOrgel Doesburg

Max Reger Phantasie und Fuge d-moll op. 135b "Urfassung" "Uncut version"
Monumentale Walcker Orgel Doesburg 1916 75 IV P
Cor van Wageningen

Manuscript including unfortunately cut measures for print version
This reduction can''t really be explained nor understood until now. Probably Reger integrally adopted Straubes advice for removal of those pages. If Straube gave his advice on request by Reger or on personal initiative is unknown. Maybe the publishers wishes played a role in this bitter mistake.

Please enjoy among other things the incredible Debussy-like symbolist "Stimmungszauber" (mood magic) in this late work (1914-1916) by Reger. Reger was influenced by Debussy in some of his works, they shared anti-Wagnerism but adopted much of that style. As one of the very few non-german speaking composers Reger appreciated, he performed a work of his (Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune) once as a conductor with the Meiningen orchestra, in 1913.
The organ being an ideal vehicle for this symbolist mood magic is preserved barely changed despite its move from Rotterdam to Doesburg.

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Max Reger Repräsentative Orgelwerke Vol V ToccaTa Records Ridderkerk©
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