Max Reger

Reger is considered by many to be the most important composer to elaborate on the stylistic traits of Brahms and move German music into the 20th century. He was an extremely prolific composer, surpassing many of the 19th-century masters in volume during his short life. He was also a driven man, consumed by hard living. Reger composed in most every form of the time, except opera and the symphony proper. His style is contrapuntally dense, with extremely fast modulations lending an atonal feel to many of his lines, though the music remains strictly tonal in its harmonic direction...