Closing concert of the 53rd Merseburg Organ Festival

The Merseburg Organ Festival is taking place for the 53rd time, with the magnificent Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral taking centre stage. From 9 to 17 September 2023, the audience can look forward to numerous concerts with top-class organists. Under the title "AppetitAnReger - Max Reger on his 150th birthday", we will be commemorating the important German composer of the late Romantic period, Max Reger, in 2023.

Closing concert "The symphonic Reger"
Sebastian Breuninger - Violin
Britta Schwarz - Alto
On the Ladegast organ: Edgar Krapp
Merseburg Court Music (on instruments of the Reger period)
Michael Schönheit - Management

Tickets are available in advance via reservix.de, adticket.com and in the Tourist-Information Merseburg.

Program

Max Reger (1873 - 1916) 
Two Romances op. 50
for violin and orchestra
No. 1 Romance in G major
No. 2 Romance in D major

Max Reger
From: Four tone poems for large orchestra after Arnold Böcklin op. 128
No. 1 "The hermit playing the violin" 

Max Reger
To Hope op. 124 (Friedrich Hölderlin, 1770 - 1843)
for alto solo and orchestra

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Max Reger
Fantasy and Fugue op. 135 b for organ solo

Max Reger
Variations and fugue for orchestra on a theme by Mozart op. 132