Requiem (Reger)

Max Reger’s 1915 Requiem is a late Romantic setting of Friedrich Hebbel’s poem “Requiem” for alto or baritone solo, chorus and orchestra. Reger had composed Requiem settings before: his 1912 motet for male chorus, published as the final part of his Op. 83, uses the same poem. In 1914 he set out to compose a choral work in memory of...