List of compositions by Richard Wagner

This is a sortable list of compositions by Richard Wagner.

WWV[1] Form or genre Title

Chamber works

4 chamber music String Quartet in D major (1829; lost; occasionally mistaken for the Starnberg Quartet, no evidence of the Starnberg Quartet's existence survives)[2][3]

Orchestral works

Symphonies

29 orchestral Symphony in C major (1832)
35 orchestral Symphony in E major (1834; uncompleted; first movement finished; second movement unfinished)[4]
78 orchestral Symphonies (1846-47; uncompleted; sketches exist for at least two symphonies)[4]

Overture

10 orchestral Overture in B-flat major ("Paukenschlag-Ouvertüre") (1830; lost)
11 orchestral Politische Ouvertüre (c. 1830; lost and likely uncompleted[4])
12 orchestral Overture to Schiller's Die Braut von Messina (1830; lost?)
14 orchestral Overture in C major (1830; lost)
17 orchestral Overture in E-flat major (1831; lost and likely uncompleted[4])
20 orchestral Concert Overture No. 1 in D minor (1831)
24 orchestral Overture in E minor and incidental music to Raupach's König Enzio (1832; only the Overture survives)[4]
27 orchestral Concert Overture No. 2 in C major (1832)[4]
37 orchestral Overture and incidental music to Guido Theodor Apel's historic drama Columbus (1834-35; only the Overture survives)[4]
39 orchestral Polonia Overture in C major (1836)
42 orchestral Rule Britannia Overture in D major (1837)
59 orchestral Eine Faust-Ouvertüre (1855, second version; 1840, first version originally conceived as the first movement to a Faust Symphony)[4]

Other orchestral works

13 orchestral Orchestral work in E minor (c. 1830; fragment)
25 orchestral Entreactes tragiques No. 1 in D major, No. 2 in C minor (c. 1832)[4]
73 orchestral Trauermusik (Funeral Music), on motifs from Weber's Euryanthe (1844) (for large wind band)
91B orchestral Träume. Version for violin and chamber orchestra (1857)
97 orchestral Huldigungsmarsch (1864, version for military band; 1871, orchestral version)[4]
98 orchestral Romeo und Julie (1868; sketches / uncompleted)[4]
103 orchestral Siegfried Idyll (1870)
104 orchestral Kaisermarsch (1871)
107 orchestral Plans for overtures and symphonies (1874–83; uncompleted)[4]
110 orchestral Großer Festmarsch zur Eröffnung der hundertjährigen Gedenkfeier der Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten

(Grand Festive March for the Opening of the Centennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America) (1876)

Piano works and Lieder

Piano

2 piano Sonata in D minor (1829;[4] lost)[5][6]
5 piano Sonata in F minor (1829;[4] lost)[7][6]
16 piano 4-hands Sonata in B-flat major, for four hands (1831;[4] lost)[6]
21 piano Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 1 (1831)
22 piano Fantasia in F-sharp minor (1831)
23A piano Polonaise for piano (1831–32)
23B piano 4-hands Polonaise for piano, four hands (1831-32)[4]
26 piano Grand Sonata in A major (1832)
64 piano Albumblatt für Ernst Benedikt Kietz: "Lied ohne Worte" (c. 1840)[4]
84 piano Polka (1853)
85 piano Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck (1853)
88 piano Züricher Vielliebchen-Walzer [de] (1854)
93 piano Elegy in A-flat major (c. 1858; rev. 1881)[4]
94 piano In the album of Fürstin M (1861)
95 piano Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen (1861)
108 piano Albumblatt für Frau Betty Schott (1875)

Lieder

7 Lied Lieder (1828–30; sketches / drafts)
15 Lied Seven Compositions on Goethe's Faust (1831)[6]
30 Lied Glockentöne (Abendglocken) (1832; lost)[4]
50 Lied "Der Tannenbaum" (c. 1838)[4]
53 Lied Dors mon enfant (1839)[4]
54 Lied Extase (1839;[4] fragment)
55 Lied Attente (1839)
56 Lied La tombe dit à rose (1839;[4] fragment)
57 Lied Mignonne (1839)[4]
58 Lied Tout n'est qu'images fugitives (Soupir) (1839)[4]
60 Lied Les deux grenadiers (1839-40)[4]
61 Lied Adieux de Marie Stuart (1840)[4]
91 Lied Wesendonck Lieder (1858, third version; 1857-58, second and first version)[4]
92 Lied Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat (c. 1858; draft)
105 Lied Der Worte viele sind gemacht[4] (1871)

Vocal works

Arias

3 aria Aria (1829; lost)
8 aria Aria for soprano and orchestra (early 1830?; lost)
28 aria Scene and Aria for soprano and orchestra (1832; lost)[4]
33 aria Aria No. 15 (Aubry) "Wie ein schöner Frühlingsmorgen" from the opera Der Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner with a new allegro "Doch jetzt, wohin ich blicke, umgibt mich Schreckensnacht" (1833)[4]
43 aria "Sanfte Wehmut will sich regen". Aria for bass and orchestra. Excerpt from the opera Mary, Max und Michel by Carl Blum (1837)[4]
45 aria Bass aria from Die Schweizer Familie (c. 1837; lost)[4]
52 aria "Norma il predisse, o Druidi", aria for bass, male chorus, and orchestra for the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini (1839)[4]

Opera

6 Oper Pastoral opera (unnamed)[4] (early 1830?; lost)
31 Oper Die Hochzeit (1832–33; unfinished)
32 Große romantische Oper Die Feen (1833-1834; rev. 1834)[4]
38 Große komische Oper Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (1835–36)
40 Große Oper Die hohe Braut (c. 1836-42;[4] libretto completed; little to no music composed)[8]
48 komische Oper Männerlist größer als Frauenlist, oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie (c. 1838;[4] libretto completed; only three musical numbers completed, all in piano score)
49 Große tragische Oper Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (1837-1840; rev. 1843-1844, 1847)[4]
63 romantische Oper Der fliegende Holländer (1840–41; rev. 1846, 1852, 1860[4])
66 Oper Die Sarazenin (c. 1841-43; libretto drafted; no music composed)[4]
67 Oper Die Bergwerke zu Falun (1842; libretto drafted; no music composed)[4]
70 Große romantische Oper Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (1842–45; rev. 1845, 1847, 1851, 1860-61, 1865, 1875[4])
75 romantische Oper Lohengrin (1845-1848)[4]
76 Oper ? Friedrich I. (1846-49; sketches only)[4]
80 Oper ? Jesus of Nazareth (1849; scenario and 1 musical sketch)
81 Oper ? Achilleus (1849–50; only prose drafts exist[4])
82 Heldenoper Wieland der Schmied (1849–50; only prose drafts exist[4])
86A Bühnenfestspiel, Vorabend Das Rheingold (1851–54)[4]
86B Bühnenfestspiel, erster Tag Die Walküre (1851–56)[4]
86C Bühnenfestspiel, zweiter Tag Siegfried (1851–71)[4]
86D Bühnenfestspiel, dritter Tag Götterdämmerung (1848–74)[4]
89 Oper Die Sieger (1856; only a short prose sketch exists[4])
90 Handlung Tristan und Isolde (1854–59)[4]
96 Oper Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1845–67)
99 Oper ? Luther's Wedding (1868; only prose sketches exist;[4] no music composed[4])
111 Bühnenweihfestspiel Parsifal (1857–82)[4]

Other vocal works

1 Trauerspiel Leubald (1826–28; music lost, libretto survives)
19A choral Study fugue "Dein ist das Reich" (1831–32)
19B Double Fugue (1831–32; no instrumentation or text set)
36 choral[4] Incidental music for Wilhelm Schmale's one-act allegorical play Beim Antritt des neuen Jahres 1835 (1834)[4]
41 incidental music Incidental music to J. Singer's play Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preußen oder Der Deutsche Ritterorden in Königsberg (c. 1837; fragment; lost)[4]
44 choral Folk hymn Nicolay (1837)[4]
51 choral Gesang am Grabe (Funeral Dirge) (1838-39; lost)[4]
65 vocal orchestral "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 (c. 1841)[4]
68A choral Festgesang Der Tag erscheint (1843; male chorus a cappella, TTBB)[4]
68B choral Festgesang Der Tag erscheint (c. 1843; male chorus with brass instruments, 4hn, 4tpt, 3 trbn, bass tuba)[4]
69 choral Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843)[4]
71 choral Gruß seiner Treuen an Friedrich August (II. von Sachsen) (1844)[4]
72 choral An Webers Grabe (1844)
100 Lustspiel Ein Lustspiel in einem Akt (1868; prose draft[4])
101 choral Wahlspruch für die Deutsche Feuerwehr (1869)
102 Lustspiel in antiker Manier Eine Kapitulation (1870; unfinished[4])
106 choral Kinderkatechismus zu Kosels Geburtstag (1873)
112 choral[4] Willkommen in Wahnfried, du heil'ger Christ (1877)
113 choral[4] Ihr Kinder, geschwinde, geschwinde (c. 1880)[4]

Miscellaneous

18 arrangement Piano reduction of Haydn's Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major (1831; lost)
34 arrangement Instrumentation of a cavatina from Bellini's Il pirata (1833; lost)[4]
46A arrangement Bellini, Norma, retouching of orchestration (c. 1837)[4]
46B arrangement Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert der Teufel No. 18 (C) Cavatina transcribed for strings[4] (c. 1838)[4]
46C arrangement Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe No. 18 Hunting chorus and reorchestration (c. 1839)[4]
46D arrangement Fromental Halévy: Le Guitarrero for several instruments
46E arrangement Arrangements of Halévy's La reine de Chypre
46F arrangement Daniel Auber: Zanetta ou Jouer avec le feu, Arrangement for flute and string trio, Suites No. 1 and 2
47 arrangement Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales, No. 12 Duet "Li Marinari", instrumentation (c. 1838)[4]
62A arrangement Various composers, suites for the cornet à pistons (c. 1840; lost)[4]
62B arrangement Arrangements from Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite (c. 1840-1842)[4]
62C arrangement Henri Herz: Grande Fantaisie sur La Romanesca fameux air de danse du XVI siècle, Op. 111. Arrangement for piano four hands (c. 1840-1842)[4]
62D arrangement Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera Le Guitarrero (c. 1840-42)[4]
62E arrangement Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera in five acts La reine de Chypre (c. 1840-1842)[4]
62F arrangement Arrangements of Daniel Auber's opera Zanetta for flute quartet (c. 1840-1842)[4]
74 arrangement Orchestration of Spontini's La vestale (c. 1844)[4]
77 arrangement Arrangement of Christoph Willibald Gluck's tragic opera Iphigénie en Aulide (c. 1846-47)[4]
79 arrangement Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Stabat mater (c. 1848)[4]
83 arrangement Arrangement of Mozart's Don Giovanni (1850; lost[4])
87 arrangement Konzertschluß to the Overture to Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis (c. 1854)[4]
109 arrangement Arrangement of the Waltz Wein, Weib und Gesang by Johann Strauss II (1875)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The numbers given for Richard Wagner's works are from the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV).
  2. ^ Saffle, Saffle (2002). Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide (Second ed.). Routledge Music Bibliographies. p. 303. ISBN 978-0415998406.
  3. ^ Millington, Barry (October 30, 1992). Wagner: Revised Edition. Princeton University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0691027227.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj Millington 2001.
  5. ^ "Wolf's Thematic Index of the Works of the Great Composers".
  6. ^ a b c d Kirby 1997.
  7. ^ "Wolf's Thematic Index of the Works of the Great Composers".
  8. ^ Borchmeyer, Dieter (2003). Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0691114972.

Sources

  • Deathridge J., Geck M. and Voss E. (1986). Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV): Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen ("Catalogue of Wagner's Works: Catalogue of Musical Compositions by Richard Wagner and Their Sources"). Mainz, London, & New York: Schott Musik International.
  • Kirby, F. E. (1997). Music for Piano: A Short History. Amadeus Press.
  • Millington, Barry (2001). The Wagner Compendium: A Guide To Wagner's Life and Music. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0500282748.
  • Newman, Ernest (1949). Wagner Nights. London: Putnam & Co. (reprinted multiple times)