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Selected Writings of Max Reger

By Christopher Anderson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
0415973821, 9780415973823, 9780203958858
LCC
ML410.R25 A25 2006
Open Library ID
OL22732644M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2545199 bytes)
Pages
184\184
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The title of this book is, "Writings of Max Reger," but there is a pitiful lack of his writing here. Let me be more specific. Amazon advertised the book as having 184 pagers, and this is true, but as it turns out, the first 43 pages are the editors introduction (I-XLIII) and the last 34 are notes and an index. This leaves 107 pages: 9 pages are completely blank, 4 have a single title heading and 24 are more comments from the editor, and writings by other persons. This leaves 70 pages and of this number only 42 are fully devoted to Reger writings. I regret to say it, but this book seems a perfunctory "publish or parish" sham. It is in reality a 43 page essay with examples of Reger's writing supporting the commonplace that the composer had a bad time with the musical critics of his day and that he could be counted on for some funny remarks.

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