Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue

Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue (German: Introduction, Passacaglia und

Introduction, Passacaglia
Fuge) in E minor, Op. 127, is an extended composition for organ by Max Reger,
and Fugue
composed in 1913 and dedicated toKarl Straube who played the premiere in Breslau
on 24 September. It was published in November ht at year in Berlin by Bote & Bock. Organ music by Max Reger

Contents
History
Music
Manuscript and edition
Legacy
References
Bibliography
External links

History
Reger in 1913
Reger composed the work in Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany in April and May of
Key E minor
1913. He wrote the organ piece with the intent for it to be performed for organ
concerts, rather than for church services, called "in grand style"[1] ("ganz großen Catalogue Op. 127
Stils").[2] Reger composed the work on a commission for the opening celebrations of Composed 1913
a new concert hall in Breslau, theCentennial Hall (Jahrhunderthalle).[3] Dedication Karl Straube

Reger revived organ concert music which had become unfashionable. In Karl Published 1913
Straube, he had an organist and friend who was able to play technically difficult
music, and to influence the composition.[4] The markings for expression are believed to have been influenced by Straube.[1] Reger
dedicated the work to Straube who played the first performance in Breslau on 24 September 1913.[5] The composition was published
in November 2013 in Berlin byEd. Bote & G. Bock.[5]

Music
The work is structured in three sections, the introduction, apassacaglia with 26 variations, and a double fugue.[6] The variations build
in intensity towards the fugue.[7]

The organist David Goode wrote that the introduction begins with dense chromaticism and flourishing figuration. The passacaglia is
based on a theme which uses eleven of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. 26 variations are grouped in the sections: a first,
intensifying speed and texture, a second as a meditative centre, and a third, again intensifying towards the fugue. He notes Reger's
"effective control of pace and excitement".[8]

Manuscript and edition

.[9]
The Max-Reger-Institute holds Reger's manuscript of the work which was intended for the engraver

Reger, Max. Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Band 6. Choralfantasien. Wiesbaden/Leipzig/Paris:Breitkopf & Härtel. pp. 91–
147.
Legacy
The Canadian composerHealey Willan heard the work, played by his friend Dalton Baker. When Baker said "that such a work could
only have been composed by a 'German philosophical mind'" Willan was challenged to write a composition of the same structure,
completed in 1916.[10]

References
1. Institute works 2016. 6. Clements 2013.
2. Thissen 2016, p. 4. 7. Hörnicke 2015.
3. Institute biography 2016. 8. Goode 2013.
4. Thissen 2016, p. 8. 9. Institute organ 2016.
5. Institute 2016. 10. Dawes 2005.

Bibliography
Clements, Andrew (2013)."Reger: Introduction, Variations and Fugue; etc – review". The Guardian. Retrieved
10 December 2018.
Dawes, Chris (2005). "Theatricality in Healey Willan's Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (1916)" (PDF).
humanities.mcmaster.ca. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
Goode, David (2013). "Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor , Op 127". Hyperion Records. Retrieved
10 December 2018.
Hörnicke, Richard (2015)."Orgel-Winterspiele in St.Bonifatius mit Regers "Phantasie und Fuge über B-A-C-H"
eröffnet". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2018.
Popp, Susanne (2007).Busch, Hermann J., ed.Zur Quellenlage der Regerschen Orgelwerk. Zur Interpretation der
Orgelmusik Max Regers(in German) (2 ed.). Kassel: Merseburger V erlag.
Straube, Karl, ed. (1952).Briefe eines Thomaskantors. Stuttgart. p. 236.
Thissen, Paul (2016). "Anmerkungen zu Max Regers Orgelmusik (T eil 1)" (PDF) (in German). Diocese of Paderborn.
"Introduction, Passacaglia und Fuge e-Moll Op. 127 / für Orgel". Max-Reger-Institute. 2016.
"Volume I/2-3 Fantasias and fugues, variations, sonatas, suites". Max-Reger-Institute. 2016.
"Music manuscripts". Max-Reger-Institute. 2016.
"1913". Max-Reger-Institute. 2016.

External links
Introduction, Passacaglia und Fuge, Op.127 (Reger
, Max): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
(IMSLP)
Max Reger / Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue for organ in E minor
, Op. 127 AllMusic

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