ABSTRACT
The Leipzig Conservatory employed both Max Reger and Karl Straube in 1907, and the subsequent teaching contribution of both men constituted the longest single element of their careers. Straube's long activity at the Conservatory, together with the many German and international students he attracted to Leipzig, must have had enormous consequences for the performance and reception of Reger's organ music well beyond the boundaries of Saxony. Straube's initial Leipzig appointment to the prestigious position of organist at St. Thomas Church is itself remarkable in that he, a young Prussian organist active in the Rhine city of Wesel, was chosen other applicants from Saxony and Thuringia without ever having played an audition. In 1927 Straube's Church Music Institute published its examination requirements for all areas of study in Dresden's Zeitschrift fur Kirchenmusiker—Organ des Landesvereins der Kirchenmusiker Sachsens E. V.
