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.[1] It is a setting of a poem in three stanzas by Martin Boelitz [de].[1] 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].[2] It was first published by Bote & Bock in Berlin in 1910, with a dedication to Philipp Wolfrum.[1][2] It was published again in 1967 as part of Reger's complete works by Breitkopf & Härtel.