Max Reger Institute

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The Max Reger Institute / Elsa Reger Foundation is a musicological research institute with an extensive archive in Karlsruhe .

The institute is named after Max Reger and his wife Elsa Reger . Max Reger was an important representative of German musical life during his lifetime (1873–1916), but the upheavals in New Music made him forget. Elsa Reger founded the foundation and institute.

history

In 1947 Max Reger's widow Elsa Reger set up a foundation and established the Max Reger Institute in Bonn as the executive body . Initially with neither funds nor any other inheritance , thanks to the ideational attitude of all those involved, the investigation of the autographs scattered in two world wars and the establishment of an archive could begin, and research activities began on a modest, but steadily increasing scale. Since 1996, after moving to Karlsruhe in the house of the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine , the Max-Reger-Institut has been institutionally funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg and the city of Karlsruhe and has been located in the Alte Karlsburg Durlach since 1998 . The Max Reger Institute has long had a close cooperation with the Karlsruhe University of Music and the Baden State Library .

Archival material

The archive comprises music autographs (drafts, fair copies, proofs) from all creative phases and types of work as well as a large number of handwritten letters and postcards from Reger to friends, publishers, interpreters and important contemporaries. The extensive correspondence of the widow after Reger's death as well as documents, photographs, pictures, caricatures, concert programs and mementos are also archived.

Since 2003, the BrüderBuschArchiv with a variety of documents on life and work etc. a. the important interpreters Fritz and Adolf Busch on the inventory. The library with printed music by Reger in first and later editions, with international literature on Reger and his environment and an extensive sound archive is supplemented by copies of those manuscripts and documents that are not in the Foundation's possession.

Publications

As the center of Reger research, the Max Reger Institute processes and makes the archive and research material accessible and publishes the results in its own series of publications , which also include dissertations scientifically supported by the Max Reger Institute ; since 2020, publications have been appearing in digital form in loose succession. Since 2008, a new edition of Reger works has also been produced at the Max Reger Institute; in addition, individual scholarly new editions of Reger works appear. At the beginning of 2011 , the new Reger work directory was published, funded by the German Research Foundation .

other activities

From the very beginning, the work of the Max Reger Institute was shaped by the idea of ​​making the collected material accessible and available to researchers, musicians and music lovers. Through this supporting function and through the regular organization and implementation of exhibitions, congresses, lecture concerts and concert series in international cooperation with music academies and changing organizers, the Max Reger Institute is today much more than a research and publication center, it is a communicative center, that promotes the dissemination and understanding of Max Reger, his historical environment and the roots of contemporary music.

Since 2005, the Institute is directed to the city of Karlsruhe and the University of Music Karlsruhe the European Chamber Music Competition Karlsruhe from.

Personalities

Founding members of the Board of Trustees of the Elsa Reger Foundation:

Further members of the Board of Trustees of the Elsa Reger Foundation were or are a .:

Honorary members of the Max Reger Institute:

Other people:

Publications of the institute

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brothers Busch Archive. Max Reger Institute / Elsa Reger Foundation, accessed on September 27, 2015 .