Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was the architect of a new world of music theatre. Undoubtedly one of history’s most important composers, famous for his operas, and a politically controversial man, browse our sheet music and scores, and let Stretta Music help you decide for yourself... master or miscreant!
Richard Wagner revolutionised music and theatre by returning them to their common origins. This he saw as ancient Greek drama, in which poetry, music and dance formed a unity. He implemented this idea of an all embracing piece of art in an exemplary fashion in the four parts of the The Ring of the Nibelung, for which the Bayreuth Festival Theatre was built.
Just as his contemporary Giuseppe Verdi is considered the archetype of Italian music, Richard Wagner truly became the epitome of the German composer.
Already during his lifetime, irreconcilable camps were formed by admirers like Franz Liszt and Anton Bruckner and opponents like Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms . Wagner also had a great influence on French composers like Claude Debussy and Ernest Chausson.
Although Wagner did not write number operas, rather a free flowing theatrical whole, held together with "Leitmotivs", themes representing characters, objects or places, some highlights can be extracted from his works and performed by amateurs and professionals alike. For choirs, the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin and a classic for all male voice choirs Steuermann, lass die Wacht from The Flying Dutchman are excellent examples.
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 295238
Reproduced from the authoritative B. Schott's edition
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416704
WWV 63
Fassung 1842-1880
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 614666
Oper in 4 Bildern WWV 86a
Vorabend zum Ring des Nibelungen
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360848
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 111
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360854
aus der neuen Gesamtausgabe
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 273123
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 273247
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 624261
Dresdner und Pariser Fassung in Szenenfolge
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 20
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382592
Reprinted in the authoritative C. F. Peters edition published in Leipzig, ca. 1910
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 150285
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1201465
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371175
Second part of The Ring of the Nibelung
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318137
in Full Score
for: Opera
Book
Item no.: 416701
Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen WWV 111
Leitmotivangaben von Carl Waack,
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284556
Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen WWV 63
Urfassung 1841
Wagner Urtext-Klavierauszüge
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 211727
Romantische Oper in 3 Aufzügen WWV 75
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284549
nach Gedichten von Mathilde WesendonckWWV 91 A
for: Alt und Kammerorchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 287454
Reproduced from the 1887 Breitkopf & Härtel edition
Dover Full Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416698
Vorspiel
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 723802
Schott Archive
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 724077
Preludes to Acts 1 and 3
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749220
in Full Score
for: Opera
Book
Item no.: 416709
Vollständiger Text mit Notentafeln der Leitmotive
Opern der Welt
Lyric book
Item no.: 111603
from Lohengrin
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 224561
Band 2
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 166793
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 587401
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463471
Textbuch, Einführung und Kommentar
Opern der Welt
Lyric book
Item no.: 214239
Oper in 3 Aufzügen
Textbuch mit Varianten der Partitur
Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
Lyric book
Item no.: 385863
Die Spinnerin op. 59/2
for: 4 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 394629
Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen
Klavierauszug nach der Gesamtausgabe
Item no.: 757847
Overture to the Opera
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 735966
Einleitung
Transcriptions by Zoltán Kocsis
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 255826
Item no.: 610737
from "The Valkyrie"
for: Bass-Klarinette und Klavier
Score, part
Item no.: 1209203
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 353167
OperWWV 96
Piano reduction
Item no.: 608994
Overture to the Opera – Dresden Version
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 493511
WWV 103
for: Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 201100
Gekürzte Fassung des Brautchors "Treulich geführt" aus Wagners Oper "Lohengrin"
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357168
Wagner: Bühnenwerke ohne Ring
for: Trumpet
Item no.: 130567
Der Ring des Nibelungen. Ein Bühnenfestspiel für 3 Tage und einen Vorabend WWV 86 C
Richard Wagner – Sämtliche Werke 12/I
mit Anhang (Schmiedelieder in Konzertfassung)
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463589
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 90
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360852
für Singstimme und Orgel
for: Voice, organ
Item no.: 184295
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 63
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360847
Bearbeitung für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 613311
aus "Die Walküre". Konzert-Paraphrase
for: Piano
Item no.: 610160
Ouvertüre der Oper, arrangiert für Orgel solo
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 658023
Der Ring des Nibelungen WWV 86 D
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 392097