Reger / Anderson 52 Easy Preludes CD

This is a magnificent, major work for organ by Max Reger (1873-1916), beautifully performed by Christopher Anderson. Christopher Anderson is Associate Professor of Sacred Music at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, where he teaches graduate courses in history and theory in the Perkins School of Theology and the Meadows School of the Arts. He joined the SMU faculty in fall 2006, having taught previously in the Music Department of the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Anderson is a scholar and organist whose work has centered on early musical modernism, modern German history and philosophy, the organ's position in Western culture, and the composer Max Reger. He has written extensively on Reger and his music in two books, Max Reger and Karl Straube: Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition (Ashgate 2003) and Selected Writings of Max Reger (Routledge 2006).