Responsories (Reger)

Responsories
Choral music by Max Reger
Reger's manuscript of the Christmas responsory
TextBiblical
LanguageEnglish
Composed1911 (1911)
Published1914 (1914)
Movements20
Scoringchoir a cappella

The Responsories by the German composer Max Reger are 20 short settings of mostly biblical texts in English, to be used as responsories in Lutheran church services. Composed in 1911, they were first published in Philadelphia in 1914 as The Responsories.