List of compositions by Richard Wagner

This is a sortable list of compositions by Richard Wagner.

WWV	Form or genre	Title
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)
29	orchestral	Symphony in C major (1832)
35	orchestral	Symphony in E major (1834; uncompleted; first movement finished; second movement unfinished)
78	orchestral	Symphonies (1846-47; uncompleted; sketches exist for at least two symphonies)
10	orchestral	Overture in B-flat major ("Paukenschlag-Ouvertüre") (1830; lost)
11	orchestral	Politische Ouvertüre (c. 1830; lost and likely uncompleted)
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)
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)
27	orchestral	Concert Overture No. 2 in C major (1832)
37	orchestral	Overture and incidental music to Guido Theodor Apel's historic drama Columbus (1834-35; only the Overture survives)
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)
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)
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)
98	orchestral	Romeo und Julie (1868; sketches / uncompleted)
103	orchestral	Siegfried Idyll (1870)
104	orchestral	Kaisermarsch (1871)
107	orchestral	Plans for overtures and symphonies (1874–83; uncompleted)
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)
2	piano	Sonata in D minor (1829; lost)
5	piano	Sonata in F minor (1829; lost)
16	piano 4-hands	Sonata in B-flat major, for four hands (1831; lost)
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)
26	piano	Grand Sonata in A major (1832)
64	piano	Albumblatt für Ernst Benedikt Kietz: "Lied ohne Worte" (c. 1840)
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)
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)
7	Lied	Lieder (1828–30; sketches / drafts)
15	Lied	Seven Compositions on Goethe's Faust (1831)
30	Lied	Glockentöne (Abendglocken) (1832; lost)
50	Lied	"Der Tannenbaum" (c. 1838)
53	Lied	Dors, mon enfant (1839)
54	Lied	Extase (1839; fragment)
55	Lied	Attente (1839)
56	Lied	La tombe dit à rose (1839; fragment)
57	Lied	Mignonne (1839)
58	Lied	Tout n'est qu'images fugitives (Soupir) (1839)
60	Lied	Les deux grenadiers (1839-40)
61	Lied	Adieux de Marie Stuart (1840)
91	Lied	Wesendonck Lieder (1858, third version; 1857-58, second and first version)
92	Lied	Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat (c. 1858; draft)
105	Lied	Der Worte viele sind gemacht (1871)
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)
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)
43	aria	"Sanfte Wehmut will sich regen". Aria for bass and orchestra. Excerpt from the opera Mary, Max und Michel by Carl Blum (1837)
45	aria	Bass aria from Die Schweizer Familie (c. 1837; lost)
52	aria	"Norma il predisse, o Druidi", aria for bass, male chorus, and orchestra for the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini (1839)
6	Oper	Pastoral opera (unnamed) (early 1830?; lost)
31	Oper	Die Hochzeit (1832–33; unfinished)
32	Große romantische Oper	Die Feen (1833-1834; rev. 1834)
38	Große komische Oper	Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (1835–36)
40	Große Oper	Die hohe Braut (c. 1836-42; libretto completed; little to no music composed)
48	komische Oper	Männerlist größer als Frauenlist, oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie (c. 1838; 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)
63	romantische Oper	Der fliegende Holländer (1840–41; rev. 1846, 1852, 1860)
66	Oper	Die Sarazenin (c. 1841-43; libretto drafted; no music composed)
67	Oper	Die Bergwerke zu Falun (1842; libretto drafted; no music composed)
70	Große romantische Oper	Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (1842–45; rev. 1845, 1847, 1851, 1860-61, 1865, 1875)
75	romantische Oper	Lohengrin (1845-1848)
76	Oper ?	Friedrich I. (1846-49; sketches only)
80	Oper ?	Jesus of Nazareth (1849; scenario and 1 musical sketch)
81	Oper ?	Achilleus (1849–50; only prose drafts exist)
82	Heldenoper	Wieland der Schmied (1849–50; only prose drafts exist)
86A	Bühnenfestspiel, Vorabend	Das Rheingold (1851–54)
86B	Bühnenfestspiel, erster Tag	Die Walküre (1851–56)
86C	Bühnenfestspiel, zweiter Tag	Siegfried (1851–71)
86D	Bühnenfestspiel, dritter Tag	Götterdämmerung (1848–74)
89	Oper	Die Sieger (1856; only a short prose sketch exists)
90	Handlung	Tristan und Isolde (1854–59)
96	Oper	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1845–67)
99	Oper ?	Luther's Wedding (1868; only prose sketches exist; no music composed)
111	Bühnenweihfestspiel	Parsifal (1857–82)
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	Incidental music for Wilhelm Schmale's one-act allegorical play Beim Antritt des neuen Jahres 1835 (1834)
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)
44	choral	Folk hymn Nicolay (1837)
51	choral	Gesang am Grabe (Funeral Dirge) (1838-39; lost)
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)
68A	choral	Festgesang Der Tag erscheint (1843; male chorus a cappella, TTBB)
68B	choral	Festgesang Der Tag erscheint (c. 1843; male chorus with brass instruments, 4hn, 4tpt, 3 trbn, bass tuba)
69	choral	Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843)
71	choral	Gruß seiner Treuen an Friedrich August (II. von Sachsen) (1844)
72	choral	An Webers Grabe (1844)
100	Lustspiel	Ein Lustspiel in einem Akt (1868; prose draft)
101	choral	Wahlspruch für die Deutsche Feuerwehr (1869)
102	Lustspiel in antiker Manier	Eine Kapitulation (1870; unfinished)
106	choral	Kinderkatechismus zu Kosels Geburtstag (1873)
112	choral	Willkommen in Wahnfried, du heil'ger Christ (1877)
113	choral	Ihr Kinder, geschwinde, geschwinde (c. 1880)
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)
46A	arrangement	Bellini, Norma, retouching of orchestration (c. 1837)
46B	arrangement	Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert der Teufel No. 18 (C) Cavatina transcribed for strings (c. 1838)
46C	arrangement	Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe No. 18 Hunting chorus and reorchestration (c. 1839)
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)
62A	arrangement	Various composers, suites for the cornet à pistons (c. 1840; lost)
62B	arrangement	Arrangements from Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite (c. 1840-1842)
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)
62D	arrangement	Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera Le Guitarrero (c. 1840-42)
62E	arrangement	Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera in five acts La reine de Chypre (c. 1840-1842)
62F	arrangement	Arrangements of Daniel Auber's opera Zanetta for flute quartet (c. 1840-1842)
74	arrangement	Orchestration of Spontini's La vestale (c. 1844)
77	arrangement	Arrangement of Christoph Willibald Gluck's tragic opera Iphigénie en Aulide (c. 1846-47)
79	arrangement	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Stabat mater (c. 1848)
83	arrangement	Arrangement of Mozart's Don Giovanni (1850; lost)
87	arrangement	Konzertschluß to the Overture to Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis (c. 1854)
109	arrangement	Arrangement of the Waltz Wein, Weib und Gesang by Johann Strauss II (1875)

See also

• List of works for the stage by Richard Wagner

Notes

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)

External links

• Listing of the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (in German)