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Margarete Ulrike Augusta Marie Karoline Elsa Reger (née von Bagenski; previously von Bercken, 25 October 1870 – 3 May 1951) was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer Max Reger, whose memory she kept alive by founding an archive, the Max-Reger-Institute, and a foundation, all dedicated to him and his work.
Elsa Reger (Kołobrzeg, 25 d'octubre de 1870 - Bonn, 3 de maig de 1951) va ser una escriptora alemanya, esposa del pianista i compositor Max Reger, la memòria de la qual va mantenir viva amb la fundació d'un arxiu, el 1920, i el 1947, de l'Institut Max Reger, ambdós dedicats a ell, i la seva obra.
30 de mar. de 2018 · Max Reger (1873-1916). Elsa Reger, in her book (1930), writes in some detail about the circumstances surrounding Reger’s death. She arrived in the afternoon of May 11, 1916 at the death-bed of her beloved husband (p. 153) and stayed the whole night (p. 154), meaning until May 12.
The Max-Reger-Institut / Elsa Reger Foundation (MRI) was established on 25 October 1947 by Elsa Reger, the composer’s widow, knowing that Max Reger thirty years after his death on 11 May 1916 had fallen into undeserved oblivion.
1 de dic. de 2004 · Reger maintained an allegiance to a normative and overtly conservative ideal of musical logic and form, one identifiable by the educated public. Reger’s view of his vocation can properly be compared with Mendelssohn’s.
Max and Elsa Reger with their adopted daughters Lotti and Christa in front of their villa in Jena (ca. 1915). – Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe. Living in the quiet scholarly town of Jena in his first own villa from March and freed from courtly and professional constraints, Reger regains his compositional élan.
In March, Max and Elsa Reger move to Leipzig with a 90-year-old great-aunt; in July, the childless couple take the orphan Christa into the family. A generous financial grant from Henri Hinrichsen of the publishing house C.F. Peters enables Reger to limit his concert activity for one year and to concentrate on his large-scale symphonic works ...
