COMPOSER

Max Reger

1873 - 1916

Photo of Max Reger

Icon of person Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. 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 for piano and organ. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Reger has received more than 358,894 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Max Reger is the 173rd most popular composer (down from 156th in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from Germany (down from 15th in 2019) and the 29th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Max Regers by language


Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Max Reger ranks 173 out of 1,228. Before him are Johann Stamitz, Philippe de Vitry, Michael Haydn, John Barry, Adrian Willaert, and Dmitry Kabalevsky. After him are Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Louis Spohr, Bohuslav Martinů, Siegfried Wagner, and Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Most Popular Composers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Max Reger ranks 19. Before him are Luigi Lucheni, Spyridon Louis, William McMaster Murdoch, G. E. Moore, Julius Martov, and Alberto Santos-Dumont. After him are Sándor Ferenczi, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Feodor Chaliapin, Otto Loewi, Francisco I. Madero, and Max Reinhardt. Among people deceased in 1916, Max Reger ranks 26. Before him are Enrique Granados, Charles Taze Russell, Charles de Foucauld, José Echegaray, Émile Verhaeren, and Elisabeth of Wied. After him are Percival Lowell, Ivan Franko, Rubén Darío, Eduard Strauss, Jean Webster, and Gaston Maspero.

Others Born in 1873

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1916

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 606 out of 5,289. Before him are Elisabeth of Wied (1843), Willi Stoph (1914), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841), Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907), and Erich Priebke (1913). After him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Louis Spohr (1784), Erich Hoepner (1886), Fritz Walter (1920), Philipp Scheidemann (1865), and Arthur Nebe (1894).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Max Reger ranks 29. Before him are Max Bruch (1838), Kurt Weill (1900), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), and Johann Adolph Hasse (1699). After him are Louis Spohr (1784), Michael Praetorius (1571), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723), and Johann Mattheson (1681).

German born Composers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • Datawheel