Summer! Organ – International Organ Cycle 2026

Programm

Max Reger 1873-1916
The major free organ works

Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H op. 46
Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue op. 57
Second Sonata in D minor op. 60
Variations and Fugue in F sharp minor on an Original Theme op. 73
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor op. 127
Fantasia and Fugue in D minor op. 135b

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»I do not believe that human fingers can play your works and human ears can sustain it.« This opinion by a contemporary may only be anecdotal, but it shows how novel and bold Max Reger’s organ compositions were perceived to be. The “Summer! Organ” cycle with international guests is devoted this year to the major free organ works of Reger. Their expressivity and incredible colourfulness show off the Walcker organ, rebuilt by Kopetzki, in the Stadtkirche Bad Cannstatt to the full.