List of compositions by Richard Wagner
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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 (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) |