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MAX REGER – Three Suites for Violoncello Solo, Op.131c (1915)

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PDF 1 – Individual Cello Music and Detailed Information Notes in English on Reger, his style, his cello works and the Three Solo Suites

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These works marked a new beginning, along with the Kodaly Solo Sonata – in cello writing after a near 200-year gap from the Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach (composed in about 1720). The three Suites of Reger are much performed today in central Europe, perhaps less so in other parts of the world. It is possible to find these works in the public domain on internet but here they are collected up together as a complete volume, and with a WEALTH OF USEFUL INFORMATION!

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Musical Style:
Despite the brevity of Reger’s career, he was most prodigious in output. Max Reger lived in times of change. His music represents both a late flowering of German Romanticism and a foretaste of the Modernism to come. His mature chamber works demonstrate the best of both worlds, combining expressivity with innovation.

In his teen years, he came under the disparate influences of Bach and Wagner, and the portly shadow of Brahms hangs over much of his earlier repertoire. But as an adult, Reger came to see the influence of Brahms rather more as a burden as he sought a distinctive composing voice. This even led him to disown his youthful compositions (including the first Cello Sonata, Op.5). Eventually he fused a style from these sources, adding his own unique counterpoint. He melded Baroque structural ingredients with the opulent harmonic palette of the late Romantic period, even displaying some similarity to Zemlinsky, Schmidt and Schoenberg. However, although respected by Arnold Schoenberg and other modernists, he was rather mis-placed for music that was difficult to categorize and label. Much of his music communicates a lush and luxuriant sound world built from his brilliant use of chromaticism and an advanced harmonic language. Although his music remains strictly tonal, his extremely fast modulations almost convey a sense of atonality. However, tonality is never entirely rejected, and each of his chamber works indicates a key signature in its title, though in his mature works these often serve merely as points of departure and arrival, with the intervening music moving freely between distant keys and chord patterns.

Three Suites for Solo Unaccompanied Cello. Op.131c (1915)

I – G Major   (Präludium / Adagio / Fugue)
II – D minor   (Präludium / Gavotte / Largo / Gigue)
III – A minor   (Präludium / Scherzo / Andante con variazione)

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