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.
Der Ring des Nibelungen WWV 86 A
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Voices, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 191382
Die Postkarten-Sammlung zum 100. Todestag
Item no.: 111405
Die Postkarten-Sammlung zum 100. Todestag
Item no.: 111399
for: Orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 107176
Der Ring des Nibelungen (WWV 86) Ein Bühnenfestspiel für 3 Tage und einen Vorabend (Bd. 10-13)
Band 13/III (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 107170
Zweiter Aufzug und Anhang (Konzertfassung: Schusterlied)WWV 96
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 107164
Arie der Elisabeth aus "Tannhäuser"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Item no.: 106848
Werkeinführung
Die Oper – Schriftenreihe über musikalische Bühnenwerke
Teachers book
Item no.: 106786
aus dem Oper Tannhäuser
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 102497
aus der neuen Gesamtausgabe
WWV 111
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 445043
Der Ring des Nibelungen – Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel für 3 Tage und einen Vorabend: Dritter Tag
Textbuch mit Varianten der Partitur
Lyric book
Item no.: 385872
from the opera "Tannhäuser"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 731510
from the Opera Lohengrin
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198230
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 1661551
Scenario in 3 acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 738632
Nr. WWV 64 und 95
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1667601
Über Wagner
mit zahlreichen Abbildungen
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 765345
(Elsa's dream) from "Lohengrin"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 740586
Sailor's song from "The Flying Dutchman"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 754570
Die Postkarten-Sammlung zum 100. Todestag
Item no.: 1665391
„Was machst du mir vor Liebchens Tür“
aus: 7 Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust, WWV 15
for: Voice (bass), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 5161
from: The Valkyrie
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723201
"Treue sei unsre Zier" / "Wo froh Musik erklingt"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742671
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 677
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1345328
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1317309
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 867532
Schwerpunkt: Wagner und Liszt
Journal
Item no.: 796415
Wissenschaftliche Referate des Internationalen Richard Wagner-Symposions Dresden, 24. - 27. Januar 2013
Dresdner Beiträge zur Musikforschung 4
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 661439
Richard Wagner für Unkundige
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1019542
for: TTBB Piano 4-Hands
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1039770
Studienpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH ALBEN
Study score
Item no.: 1667693
aus "Tannhäuser"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731280
nach "Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung", WWV 91 (1857/58)
für Alt und Streichorchester bearbeitet von Gerhard Heydt (2014)
for: Voice (alto), string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 643163
from: Lohengrin
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 732361
Gebet der Elisabeth aus der Oper "Tannhäuser"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760928
The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library - Double Bass
for: Double bass
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204425
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 998185
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192924
Item no.: 614415
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 632152
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 873906
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 559702
Magnet
Item no.: 583857
Von Musikern, Dichtern und Liebhabern. Eine Anthologie
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 472631
Beck'Sche Reihe
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 340725
Lateranchor, aus: Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen
for: Chor SSTTBB, SSTTBB, Klavier
Score
Item no.: 1338485
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 341972
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 86b
Erster Tag des Rings des Nibelungen
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1652077