COMPOSER

Max Reger

1873 - 1916

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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Reger has received more than 487,324 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Reger is the 163rd most popular composer (up from 190th in 2019), the 610th most popular biography from Germany (up from 697th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Composer.

Max Reger is most famous for his work in the field of musicology. He was a German composer and musicologist who was also a professor at the University of Munich.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Reger ranks 163 out of 1,451. Before him are Michael Haydn, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Ferruccio Busoni, Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, and Giovanni Paisiello. After him are Bohuslav Martinů, Vittorio Monti, Reinhold Glière, Léonin, Pietro Locatelli, and Baldassare Galuppi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Max Reger ranks 19. Before him are Otto Loewi, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Julius Martov, and G. E. Moore. After him are Spyridon Louis, Sándor Ferenczi, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, William McMaster Murdoch, Francisco I. Madero, and Kyösti Kallio. Among people deceased in 1916, Max Reger ranks 27. Before him are Karl Schwarzschild, Elisabeth of Wied, Enrique Granados, Émile Verhaeren, Charles Taze Russell, and Ivan Franko. After him are Eduard Strauss, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Gaston Maspero, Torakusu Yamaha, and Rubén Darío.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 610 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Julia Drusilla (16), Arno Breker (1900), Karl Wolff (1900), and Curd Jürgens (1915). After him are Johann Reuchlin (1455), Wolfgang Schäuble (1942), Georg Jellinek (1851), Bert Trautmann (1923), Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819), and Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (1801).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Schütz (1585), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Max Bruch (1838), and Kurt Weill (1900). After him are Louis Spohr (1784), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Eduard Künneke (1885), and Johann Adolph Hasse (1699).

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