52 chorale preludes, Op. 67
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52 chorale preludes, Op. 67, is a collection of 52 settings of popular Protestant hymns for organ by Max Reger, composed between 1900 and 1902. Originally published in three volumes between 1900 and 1903 with the cover title "52 Choralvorspiele für Orgel", the full title of the collection was "Zweiundfünfzig leicht ausführbare Vorspiele zu den gebräuchlichsten evangelischen Chorälen".
Max Reger recording organ rolls of some of the chorale preludes on the Welte Philharmonic Organ in 1913
Reger playing the Sauer organ in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin
"Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten", Op. 67, No. 45, an example of a harmonized chorale prelude
Max Reger
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and a music director at the court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen.
Reger at the piano, c. 1910
The composer at work, painting by Franz Nölken, 1913
Reger's grave, Munich Waldfriedhof
Recording session with Max Reger for the Welte-Philharmonic-Organ, 1913