Editing Max Reger (section)

{{short description|German composer, musician, conductor, and teacher (1873–1916)}}
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{{Infobox classical composer
| name                = Max Reger
| image               = Max Reger playing piano.jpg
| caption             = Reger at the piano, {{circa|1910}}
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1873|03|19|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Brand, Bavaria]], German Empire
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1916|05|11|1873|03|19|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Leipzig]], Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
| education           = {{plainlist|
* Wiesbaden Conservatory
* [[Leipzig Conservatory|Royal Conservatory in Leipzig]]
}}
| occupation          = {{hlist|pianist|conductor|composer|professor}}
| works               = [[List of compositions by Max Reger|List of compositions]]
| organization        = {{plainlist|
* Royal Conservatory in Leipzig
* [[Meiningen Court Theatre]]
}}
| spouse              = [[Elsa Reger]]
| awards              = 
| signature           = B-a-c-h_Reger_(cropped).jpg
}}
'''Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger''' (19 March 1873{{spaced ndash}}11 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the [[Paulinerkirche, Leipzig|Leipzig University Church]], a professor at the [[Leipzig Conservatory|Royal Conservatory in Leipzig]], and a music director at the court of [[George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]].

Reger first composed mainly ''[[Lied]]er'', chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular ''[[Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart]]'' (1914), and to works for choir and orchestra such as ''[[Gesang der Verklärten]]'' (1903), ''{{lang|de|[[Der 100. Psalm]]}}'' (1909), ''[[Der Einsiedler]]'' and the ''[[Requiem (Reger)|Hebbel Requiem]]'' (both 1915).