List of compositions by Richard Wagner
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| WWV | |Form or genre | |Title |
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| 1 | Trauerspiel | Leubald Leubald Leubald was an attempt by the youthful Richard Wagner to write a tragic drama in the Shakespearean genre. It occupied him during the years 1827-28 while he was at school, first in Dresden and later in Leipzig. The play combines elements of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Richard III, with... |
| 2 | piano | Sonata in D minor |
| 3 | aria | Aria |
| 4 | chamber music | String Quartet String quartet A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group... in D major |
| 5 | piano | Sonata in F minor |
| 6 | opera | Schäferoper (Die Laune des Verliebten Die Laune des Verliebten Die Laune des Verliebten was Richard Wagner's first attempt at an opera project. Written in about 1830, when Wagner was 17, the libretto was based on a play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Wagner wrote a scene for three female voices and a tenor aria before abandoning the project... ) |
| 7 | Lieder | Lieder |
| 8 | aria | Aria for soprano and orchestra |
| 9 | arrangement | Piano reduction of Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... 's Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem... in D minor, Op. 125 |
| 10 | orchestral | Overture in B flat major ("Paukenschlag-Ouvertüre") |
| 11 | orchestral | Politische Ouvertüre |
| 12 | orchestral | Overture to Schiller Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... 's Die Braut von Messina |
| 13 | orchestral | Fragment of an orchestral work in E minor |
| 14 | orchestral | Overture in C major |
| 15 | Lieder | Seven Compositions on Goethe's Faust Goethe's Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: and . Although written as a closet drama, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages... |
| 16 | piano 4-hands | Sonata in B flat major, for four hands |
| 17 | orchestral | Overture in E flat major |
| 18 | arrangement | Piano reduction of Haydn Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms... 's Symphony No. 103 Symphony No. 103 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, Hoboken 1/103, is the eleventh of the twelve so-called London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn.This symphony is nicknamed "The Drumroll", after the long roll on the timpani with which it begins.... in E flat major |
| 19A | choral | Study fugue "Dein ist das Reich" |
| 19B | Double Fugue | |
| 20 | orchestral | Concert Overture No. 1 in D minor |
| 21 | piano | Sonata in B flat Major, Op. 1 |
| 22 | piano | Fantasia in F-sharp minor |
| 23A | piano | Polonaise for piano |
| 23B | piano | Polonaise for piano, four hands |
| 24 | orchestral | Overture in E minor and Theater Music to Raupach's "König Enzio" |
| 25 | orchestral | Entreacte tragique No. 1 in D major (Fragment) |
| 26 | piano | Grand Sonata in A major |
| 27 | orchestral | Concert Overture No. 2 in C major |
| 28 | aria | Scene and Aria for soprano and orchestra |
| 29 | orchestral | Symphony in C major Symphony in C major (Wagner) Symphony in C major, WWV29, is one of two symphonies Richard Wagner wrote. The other being the incomplete, two movement Symphony in E major WWV35.- Form :The Symphony in C major is in four movements:* I. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio... |
| 30 | Lieder | Glockentöne (Abendglocken) |
| 31 | Oper | Die Hochzeit Die Hochzeit Die Hochzeit is an unfinished opera by Richard Wagner which predates all his completed works in the genre. Wagner completed the libretto, then started composing the music in the second half of 1832 when he was just nineteen... |
| 32 | grosse romantische Oper Romantische Oper Romantische Oper was a genre of early nineteenth-century German opera, developed not from the German Singspiel of the eighteenth-century but from the opéras comiques of the French Revolution... |
Die Feen Die Feen Die Feen is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente.Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, but remained unperformed in his lifetime... |
| 33 | aria | Aria No. 15 (Aubry) "Wie ein schöner Frühlingsmorgen" from the opera "Der Vampyr Der Vampyr Der Vampyr is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück is based on the play Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, which itself was based on the short novel The Vampyre by John Polidori... " by Heinrich Marschner Heinrich Marschner Heinrich August Marschner , was the most important composer of German Romantic opera between Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, and is remembered principally for his operas Hans Heiling , Der Vampyr , and Der Templer und die Jüdin... with a new allegro "Doch jetzt, wohin ich blicke, umgibt mich Schreckensnacht" |
| 34 | arrangement | Instrumentation of a cavatina from Bellini Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani... 's "Il pirata Il pirata Il pirata is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrando by Charles Maturin... '" |
| 35 | orchestral | Symphony in E major |
| 36 | Music to the Festspiel "Beim Antritt des neuen Jahres 1835" | |
| 37 | orchestral | Overture to Guido Theodor Apel's historic drama Columbus |
| 38 | grosse komische Oper | Das Liebesverbot Das Liebesverbot Das Liebesverbot is an early opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Described as a grosse komische Oper, it was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted the premiere in 1836 at Magdeburg... oder Die Novize von Palermo |
| 39 | orchestral | Polonia. Overture in C major |
| 40 | grosse Oper | Die hohe Braut |
| 41 | incidental music | Music for the play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preußen oder Der Deutsche Ritterorden in Königsberg by J. Singer, Skizze |
| 42 | orchestral | Rule Britannia. Overture in D major |
| 43 | aria | "Sanfte Wehmut will sich regen". Aria for bass and orchestra. Excerpt from the opera Mary, Max und Michel by Carl Blum |
| 44 | choral | Folk hymn Nicolay |
| 45 | aria | Bass aria from Die Schweizer Familie |
| 46B | arrangement | Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near... : Robert der Teufel Robert le diable (opera) Robert le diable is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, often regarded as the first grand opera. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne and has little connection to the medieval legend of Robert the Devil. Originally planned as a three-act opéra comique, "Meyerbeer persuaded... No. 18 (C) Cavatina and reorchestration |
| 46C | arrangement | Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.... : "Euryanthe Euryanthe Euryanthe is a German "grand, heroic, romantic" opera by Carl Maria von Weber, first performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna on 25 October 1823... " No. 18 Hunting chorus and reorchestration |
| 46D | arrangement | Fromental Halévy: "Le Guitarrero" for several instruments |
| 46E | arrangement | Arrangements of Halévys "La reine de Chypre" |
| 46F | arrangement | Daniel Auber Daniel Auber Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments... : Zanetta ou Jouer avec le feu, Arrangement for Flute and String Trio Suite No. 1 and 2 |
| 47 | arrangement | Gioachino Rossini: "Les soirées musicales", No. 12 Duet Li Marinari, Instrumentation |
| 48 | komische Oper | Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie is an unfinished Singspiel by Richard Wagner, , written between 1837 and 1838.... , oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie |
| 49 | grosse tragische Oper | Rienzi Rienzi Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name . The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi... , der Letzte der Tribunen |
| 50 | Lieder | Der Tannenbaum |
| 51 | choral | Gesang am Grabe Julies von Holtei |
| 52 | "Norma il predisse, o Druidi", Aria for bass, male chorus, and orchestra from the opera "Norma Norma (opera) Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition... " by Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani... |
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| 53 | song | Dors mon enfant |
| 54 | song | Extase [fragment] |
| 55 | song | Attente |
| 56 | song | La tombe dit à rose (fragment) |
| 57 | song | Mignonne |
| 58 | song | Tout n'est qu'images fugitives (Soupir) |
| 59 | orchestral | Faustsymphonie, first movement (Eine Faust-Ouvertüre Faust Overture The Faust Overture is a concert overture composed by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it from 1839-40, intending it to be the first movement of a Faust Symphony based on the play Faust by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe... , first version) |
| 59 | orchestral | Faust Overture (second version) |
| 60 | song | Les deux grenadiers |
| 61 | song | Adieux de Marie Stuart |
| 62B | arrangement | Arrangements from Gaetano Donizetti Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment... 's opera La favorite La favorite La favorite is an opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play Le comte de Comminges by Baculard d'Arnaud... |
| 62C | arrangement | Henri Herz: "Grande Fantaisie sur La Romanesca fameux air de danse du XVI siècle" op. 111. Arrangement for piano four-hands |
| 62E | arrangement | Arrangements of Fromental Halévys opera in five acts "La reine de Chypre La reine de Chypre La reine de Chypre is an 1841 grand opera composed by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.-Background:... " |
| 63 | romantische Oper | Der fliegende Holländer The Flying Dutchman (opera) Der fliegende Holländer is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner.Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write "The Flying Dutchman" following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839, but in his 1843... |
| 64 | piano | Albumblatt für Ernst Benedikt Kietz: Lied ohne Worte |
| 65 | "Descendons gaiement la courtille". Contribution to the Vaudeville-Ballet-Pantomime La descente de la courtille by Th. Marion Dumersan and Ch.-Désiré Dupeuty, for chorus and orchestra | |
| 66 | Oper | Die Sarazenin |
| 67 | Oper | Die Bergwerke zu Falun |
| 68 | choral | Festgesang Der Tag erscheint |
| 68A/B | choral | Festgesang zur Enthüllung des Friedrich August-Monuments |
| 69 | choral | Das Liebesmahl der Apostel Das Liebesmahl der Apostel Das Liebesmahl der Apostel WWV 69 is a vocal and instrumental piece written by Richard Wagner in 1843, which is not often performed and somewhat forgotten; it is a piece for male choruses and orchestra... |
| 70 | grosse romantische Oper | Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg Tannhäuser (opera) Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg... |
| 71 | choral | Gruß seiner Treuen an Friedrich August (II. von Sachsen) |
| 72 | choral | An Webers Grabe |
| 73 | orchestral | Funeral music |
| 74 | arrangement | Orchestration of Spontini's La vestale La vestale La vestale is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra in Paris on December 15, 1807 and is regarded as Spontini's masterpiece... |
| 75 | romantische Oper | Lohengrin Lohengrin (opera) Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself... |
| 76 | Oper ? | Friedrich I. |
| 77 | arrangement | Arrangement of Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years... 's tragic opera Iphigénie en Aulide Iphigénie en Aulide Iphigénie en Aulide is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by Leblanc du Roullet and was based on Jean Racine's tragedy Iphigénie... |
| 78 | orchestral | Symphonies |
| 79 | arrangement | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition... : Stabat mater. Arrangement |
| 80 | Oper ? | Jesus of Nazareth |
| 81 | Oper ? | Achilleus |
| 82 | Heldenoper | Wieland der Schmied |
| 83 | arrangement | Arrangement of Mozart's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music... Don Giovanni Don Giovanni Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787... |
| 84 | piano | Polka |
| 85 | piano | Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau MW |
| 86A | Bühnenfestspiel, Vorabend | Das Rheingold Das Rheingold is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring, but the cycle is now generally regarded as consisting of four individual operas.Das Rheingold received its premiere at the National Theatre... |
| 86B | Bühnenfestspiel, erster Tag | Die Walküre Die Walküre Die Walküre , WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner... |
| 86C | Siegfried Siegfried (opera) Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring... |
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| 86D | Bühnenfestspiel, dritter Tag | Götterdämmerung Götterdämmerung is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen... |
| 87 | arrangement | Konzertschluß to the Overture to Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis |
| 88 | piano | Züricher Vielliebchen-Walzer |
| 89 | Oper ? | Die Sieger |
| 90 | Handlung | Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting... |
| 91 | Lieder | Wesendonck Lieder Wesendonck Lieder The Wesendonck Lieder is a song cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed.... |
| 91B | orchestral | Träume. Version for violin and orchestra |
| 92 | Lieder | Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat |
| 93 | ? | 'Sogenannte Themen' |
| 94 | piano | In the album of Fürstin M |
| 95 | piano | Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen |
| 96 | Oper | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas still commonly performed today, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was first performed at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich, on June 21,... |
| 97 | orchestral | Huldigungsmarsch. Arrangement for military music |
| 98 | ? | 'Sogenannte Themen' |
| 99 | Oper ? | Luther Martin Luther Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517... 's Wedding |
| 100 | Lustspiel | Ein Lustspiel in einem Akt |
| 101 | choral | Wahlspruch für die Deutsche Feuerwehr |
| 102 | Lustspiel in antiker Manier | Eine Kapitulation |
| 103 | orchestral | Siegfried Idyll Siegfried Idyll The Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, lasting approximately twenty minutes.-Background:Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869... |
| 104 | orchestral | Kaiser march |
| 105 | Lieder | kleinere Liedkompositionen |
| 106 | Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosel's Geburtstag | |
| 107 | ? | 'Sogenannte Themen' |
| 108 | piano | Albumblatt für Frau Betty Schott |
| 109 | arrangement | Arrangement of the Waltz Wein, Weib und Gesang Wein, Weib und Gesang Wein, Weib und Gesang , Op. 333, is a waltz by Johann Strauss II. It is a choral waltz in its original form, although it is seldom heard in this version today. It was commissioned for the Vienna Men's Choral Association's so-called Fools' Evening on 2 February 1869 with a dedication to the... by Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas... |
| 110 | orchestral | Grand Festive March for the Opening of the Centennial Celebration of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence United States Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a... of the United States of America |
| 111 | Bühnenweihfestspiel | Parsifal Parsifal Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work... |
| 112 | Lieder | Kleinere Liedkompositionen |
| 113 | Lieder | Kleinere Liedkompositionen |