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Max Reger’S Telemann Variations, Op.134: Analysis And Critical Evaluation Of Editions, Including An Examination Of Reger’S Performance Style Based On Concert Reviews, Christian Peter Bohnenstengel

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

Max Reger’s music is not widely known and performed. His music is often thought of as dense, highly chromatic, and hard to digest. The Telemann Variations offer a different view of this highly prolific composer, who was regarded as the most important composer next to Richard Strauss in early twentieth-century Germany. The theme, a minuet in binary form, is taken from Telemann’s Tafelmusik in B-flat Major. The variations exhibit a transparent texture, regular phrases, and formal balance.

There is a fair amount of literature about the life and music of Reger, much of it written in German. However, the Telemann …