RWA Online Encyclopedia I – Organ Works WoO IV/15

Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor WoO IV/15

for organ

Content
  • I. Prelude
  • II. Fugue
Creation
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Dedication
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Performance medium
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Original work
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Reger-Werkausgabe Bd. I/7: Orgelstücke III, S. 96–102.
Herausgeber Alexander Becker, Christopher Grafschmidt, Stefan König, Stefanie Steiner-Grage.
Verlag Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart; Verlagsnummer: CV 52.807.
Erscheinungsdatum Juli 2015.
Notensatz Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart.
Copyright 2015 by Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart and Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe – CV 52.807.
Vervielfältigungen jeglicher Art sind gesetzlich verboten. / Any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited by law.
Alle Rechte vorbehalten. / All rights reserved.
ISMN M-007-16416-4.
ISBN 978-3-89948-224-9.

1. Composition and Publication

Neither the composition nor the publication of the Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor WoO IV/15 is documented in Reger’s correspondence. Anyway, this occasional work was probably written at the request of the Freiburg organist and composer Johannes Diebold for his anthology Orgelstücke moderner Meister. Neue größere und kleinere Orgelstücke zur Übung sowie zum gottesdienstlichen und Konzertgebrauch which was to be published by Otto Junne. The collection, originally planned as one volume, ultimately had to be published as two volumes because of the surprisingly large number of contributions.1 The first volume was published at the end of 1906, the second probably in April 1907;2 a separate edition of the Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor was issued at the same time as the second volume.3

As the composers represented in the second volume, including Reger, were already named in the first volume, it can be assumed that Reger had received the request by the beginning of 1906 at the latest. The only indication of the sequence of events is contained in a registered letter which, according to the Postbuch 1 listing Reger’s correspondence, was sent to Junne on 29 December 1906. This could have contained the manuscript completed shortly before or also the proofs of the Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor.

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Translation by Elizabeth Robinson.

1
Orgelstücke moderner Meister Vol. I, Leipzig 1906, p. 4, Vorwort, dated June 1906: “As my originally modest plan has grown to two considerable volumes in its further development, so organists of all levels and shades – those training as teachers, seminarists and clerics, practical organists of both confessions, indeed even accomplished masters of organ playing – will find enough valuable material for concert purposes, in Volume I more of the former, in Volume II more of the latter.”
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Publisher’s advert. A discussion of the second anthology can be found in the July volume of the periodical Urania (64 Jg., No. 7, p. 54). – A short description of WoO IV/15 is given in the Orgelführer by Otto Burkert: “Prelude and Fugue have a tender, lyrical character.” (Review)
3
In the Musikalisch-literarischer Monatsbericht über neue Musikalien, musikalische Schriften und Abbildungen published by Friedrich Hofmeister, both editions are first listed in the August issue (p. 449)

1. Reception

At present, there are no records of performances in Reger's time.

1. Stemma

Die in Klammern gesetzten Quellen sind verschollen.
Die in Klammern gesetzten Quellen sind verschollen.

2. Quellenbewertung

Der Edition liegt als Leitquelle der Erstdruck zugrunde. Die Einzelausgabe ist mit diesem identisch.

3. Sources

    Object reference

    Max Reger: Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor WoO IV/15, in: Reger-Werkausgabe, www.reger-werkausgabe.de/mri_work_00709.html, version 3.1.0-rc3, 20th December 2024.

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