Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (1873 – 1916)
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.
Unser lieben Frauen Traum (Our dear Lady's dream, Our
Lady's Vision) Op. 138, No. 4, is a sacred motet for
unaccompanied mixed choir by Max Reger. ...(+)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (1873 – 1916)
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.
Unser lieben Frauen Traum (Our dear Lady's dream, Our
Lady's Vision) Op. 138, No. 4, is a sacred motet for
unaccompanied mixed choir by Max Reger. The German text
is a poem by an anonymous poet, derived from a
Volkslied. The piece is in F major and scored for up to
six voices, SSATBB. Composed in Meiningen in 1914, it
was published in 1916 after Reger's death as the fourth
of Acht geistliche Gesänge (Eight Sacred Songs). It is
often performed in Advent.
Reger composed the motets of Op. 138 in Meiningen in
1914, at the beginning of World War I, when he also
worked on Requiem projects in Latin and German.
Inspired by Bach's motets, he had composed "extended a
cappella choral settings", such as Geistliche Gesänge,
Op. 110, dedicated to the Thomanerchor, with
challenging double fugues. In great contrast, he
composed eight motets forming Acht geistliche Gesänge
(Eight Sacred Songs), Op. 138, as a master of "new
simplicity". He died before finishing to check the
Korrekturbögen (proofs) from the publisher. Unser
lieben Frauen Traum was published in 1916 as the fourth
of Acht geistliche Gesänge (Eight Sacred Songs).
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unser_lieben_Frauen_Trau
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Although originally composed for Voices (SA) and Piano,
I created this interpretation of "Unser lieben Frauen
Traum" (Our dear Lady's dream, Our Lady's Vision) for
Wind Sextet (Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, French Horn,
Bass Clarinet & Bassoon).
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