119, is a choral composition for alto, men's choir and orchestra by Max Reger, setting a poem by Friedrich Hebbel.

(The lady always found complete recognition of audience and critics by her magnificent voice and her deeply reasoned and genuinely musical performance.

[6] The poem "Die Weihe der Nacht" was also set by composers such as Harald Genzmer, Walter Rein and Hilding Rosenberg.

[1] Reger scored the composition for an (alto soloist, a men's choir (TTBB), and an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, trombone, three timpani and strings,[2] a scoring similar to that chosen by Brahms for his Alto Rhapsody.

[1] Die Weihe der Nacht thus foreshadows Reger's program music such as Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin, Op.

[1] The work was recorded in 1995 by the Bamberger Symphoniker and their choir, conducted by Horst Stein and with Lioba Braun as the soloist and Fritz Walter-Lingquist as the organist, along with Reger's Der 100.