Max Reger Quotes

• I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

  Max Reger

  Writing, House, Sitting

  Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.

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• Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

  Max Reger

  Beginnings And Ends, Ends, Abarat

  Max Reger, Christopher Anderson (2006). “Selected Writings of Max Reger”, p.82, Taylor & Francis

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