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| | Max Reger |
 | | Have we completely forgotten that the organ is a first class instrument, not just something for churches? This lament of Max Reger (1873-1916), quoted in a letter, was directed at the ignorance of contemporaries, to whom virtuosity in organ music, even in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, was suspect. |
 | | Reger, however, possessed a wide knowledge of both baroque and romantic organ music, and was not dismayed by his critics. |
 | | The best known of Regers organ workspublished without opus numberis the 'Introduction and Passacaglia' in D Minor, the opening track on this new recording by Franz Lehrndorfer. |
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