Max Reger: Sacred Choral Music a cappella: SATB: Vocal Score

2016 marks the first centenary of the death of Max Reger. In addition to his best-known field of creativity Organ music his choral compositions form another major part of his oeuvre.This edition contains a selection of his sacred a cappella choral works. Their scoring level of difficulty and length make them ideal for choirs who are wary of tackling the large-scale Op.110 motets. For the first time the selection of works includes the previously unpublished Acht Grabgesänge (1900). The pieces are arranged in chronological order culminating in the well-known cycle of Acht geistliche Gesänge op. 138 (1914).ContentsTantum ergoSacramentum (1895)Maria Himmelsfreud! (1899-1900)Acht Grabgesänge (ca. 1900)Acht Marienlieder op. 61d (1901)Sechs Trauergesänge op. 61g (1901)Palmsonntagmorgen (1902)Vier Kirchengesänge (1904)Easter motet: Lasset uns den Herren preisen (1911)Abschiedslied (1914)Acht geistliche Gesänge op. 138 (1914)The EditorMichael Chizzali has been a scholarly assistant at the Institute of Musicology in Weimar-Jena (Germany) since 2014. His dissertation on Reger s contemporary the Tyrolean composer Josef Gasser (1873-1957) was published in Innsbruck in 2014.All extant sources consultedEdition for the first centenary of Reger s deathCross-section of Reger s music for a cappella choirForeword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)