Die Nonnen
# Die Nonnen

Die Nonnen (The Nuns), Op. 112, is composition for mixed choir and orchestra by Max Reger, written in 1909. The text is a poem by Martin Boelitz.

## History

Reger completed Die Nonnen in 1909. It is a setting of a poem in three stanzas by Martin Boelitz [de]. The work was first performed on 8 May 1910 in Dortmund as part of a Reger Festival there, by the Musik-Verein choir and the Städtisches Orchester Dortmund, conducted by Julius Janssen [de]. It was first published by Bote & Bock in Berlin in 1910, with a dedication to Philipp Wolfrum. It was published again in 1967 as part of Reger's complete works by Breitkopf & Härtel.

## Recording

Die Nonnen was recorded in 2000, together with Reger's Romantische Suite, by the NDR Chor and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Zender.

