1. Acknowledgement

1.1.

The source and archival material presented on RWA online comes largely from the holdings of the Max-Reger-Institut.

Numerous institutions have contributed to the success of this edition by providing manuscripts, prints or digital copies of source material. Special thanks are due to Universal Edition in Vienna for permission to digitize several complete engraver’s copies for publication . Thanks are also due to:

Many other institutions and private persons have thankfully contributed to complete the representations in the encyclopaedic section, about which the respective picture credits provide information. Attempts were made to locate all rights holders. If there are any further claims, please contact the Max-Reger-Institut.

For suggestions and advice from the performers, we would like to thank:

Modul I – Orgelwerke
  • Prof. Dr. h.c. Christoph Bossert
  • Jean-Baptiste Dupont
  • Prof. Bernhard Haas
  • Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann
  • Prof. Roberto Marini
Modul II – Songs and choral works
  • Dominik Axtmann
  • Prof. Markus Becker
  • Prof. Moritz Eggert
  • Michael Fenton
  • Prof. Bernhard Haas
  • Frauke May-Jones
  • Prof. Götz Payer
  • Toni Reichl
  • Raimund Schmitz
  • Prof. Holger Speck
  • Prof. Winfried Toll

We would also like to thank the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (especially Dr. Gabriele Buschmeier † and Dr. Tanja Gölz), the Carus-Verlag Stuttgart (namely the editor Julia Rosemeyer), the staff of the Max-Reger-Institut Patrick Borgeat M.A. and Dr. Jürgen Schaarwächter, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, as well as the research assistants and interns of the Reger-Werkausgabe and the Max-Reger-Institut.

We would like to thank the Virtual Research Network Edirom (ViFE) at the Detmold/Paderborn Musicology Seminar for their cooperation in the digital realisation.

We gratefully remember Marion Reichenbach (1933–2015), who made the Max-Reger-Institut the sole beneficiary of her will.1 Her estate has funded the preparation of volumes for print from the Songs and Choral Works Series.

We would also like to thank the institutions that funded the printing of the volumes from Module I (Organ works):

Vol. I/3 – Fantasias and fugues, variations, sonatas, suites II – is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Konrad Redeker, attorney and member of the board of trustees of the Max-Reger-Instituts/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe from 1996 to 2011.