RWA Online Encyclopedia I – Organ Works WoO IV/8

Fugue in C minor WoO IV/8

for organ

Content
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Creation
Weiden, evtl. Januar 1901 oder früherIn 21 Orgelstücke für kirchlichen Gebrauch, hrsg. von Johann Adam Troppmann, Verlag von Fritz Gleichauf, Regensburg, ca. Februar 1901
Status
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Dedication
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Performance medium
Organ
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Original work
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1.

Reger-Werkausgabe Bd. I/5: Orgelstücke I, S. 62–64.
Herausgeber Alexander Becker, Christopher Grafschmidt, Stefan König, Stefanie Steiner-Grage.
Verlag Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart; Verlagsnummer: CV 52.805.
Erscheinungsdatum Februar 2014.
Notensatz Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart.
Copyright 2014 by Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart and Max-Reger-Institut, Karlsruhe – CV 52.805.
Vervielfältigungen jeglicher Art sind gesetzlich verboten. / Any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited by law.
Alle Rechte vorbehalten. / All rights reserved.
ISMN M-007-14293-3.
ISBN 978-3-89948-206-5.

1. Composition and Publication

In 1901, towards the end of his period in Weiden, Reger wrote numerous short organ works, especially chorale preludes, intended as music inserts for periodicals. Even the editors of anthologies turned to the young composer with requests for suitable works. After the Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor WoO IV/6 appeared in one such publication in 1900, Reger, as he reported to Josef Loritz, is said to have made “contributions to an organ album again” (letter dated 24 January 1901). Perhaps he was referring to the Fugue in C minor,1 although the relevant anthology was possibly already in print by this time2.
The editor of the 21 Orgelstücke für kirchlichen Gebrauch, in which WoO IV/8 was published, was Johann Adam Troppmann. He had worked as a teacher and choral director in nearby Tirschenreuth from 1865 to 1890; as a “zealous adherent and connoisseur of Cecilian church music” 3 he even published several collections of organ works in his retirement.

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Translation by Elizabeth Robinson.

1
No further organ works by Reger from this year for a publication of this kind are known.
2
The anthology was already listed in Hofmeister’s Musikalisch-literarischer Monatsbericht of February 1901. – At the time of his writing to Loritz, Reger was possibly still involved in shortening the work, which had become necessary because of the much shorter extent of the other works (note in the first printed edition: “Original-Komposition. This master fugue, written in the spirit of Bach, was shortened by the composer at the suggestion of the editor of this collection.”)
3
Oberpfälzer Schulanzeiger 25 Jg. (1903), Vol. 3 (1 February), p. 34f. (Obituary) – An Orgelalbum bayrischer Lehrerkomponisten published in 1904 likewise contains works by Troppmann and Reger (Postlude in D minor WoO IV/12).

1. Reception

At present, there are no records of performances in Reger's time.

1. Stemma

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5. Sources

    Object reference

    Max Reger: Fugue in C minor WoO IV/8, in: Reger-Werkausgabe, www.reger-werkausgabe.de/mri_work_01030.html, version 3.1.4, 2nd May 2025.

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