incomplete or projected stage works

incomplete or projected stage works

1	Leubald (Trauerspiel, 5), 1826–8 (extracts from Act 5: Leipzig, 1908); SS xvi (extracts), SW xxxi (complete); no music survives (?none written)
6	Pastoral opera (Schäferoper), after J.W. von Goethe: Die Laune des Verliebten, ? early 1830, lost
31	Die Hochzeit (Oper, ?3, after J. Büsching: Ritterzeit und Ritterwesen), Oct/Nov 1832–1 March 1833; B xii, SW xv; poem lost; of music, only introduction, chorus and septet written
40	Die hohe Braut (grosse Oper, 4 [5 in ps], after H. Koenig: Die hohe Braut), ?July 1836, Aug 1842 (Prague, 1848); SS xi, SW xxxi; music not set; no sketches survive. Wagner offered lib to K. Reissiger, then Hiller; finally set by J.B. Kittl as Bianca und Giuseppe, oder Die Franzosen vor Nizza
48	Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist, oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie (komische Oper, 2, after The Thousand and One Nights), ?sum. 1838; SS xi, SW xxxi; intended as Singspiel, with prose dialogue and individual numbers; a hitherto unknown prose draft and sketches for 3 numbers (Introduction, Duet and Trio) resurfaced in 1994
66	Die Sarazenin (Oper, 5), probably 1841, early 1843 (pd [now lost]: Bayreuth, 1889); SS xi, PW viii, SW xxxi (pd)
67	Die Bergwerke zu Falun (Oper, 3, after story by E.T.A. Hoffmann), Feb–Mar 1842 (scenario only: Bayreuth, 1905); SS xi, SW xxxi; scenario written for J. Dessauer; later offered to A. Röckel, who appears to have intended to set it. Wagner himself made no setting
76	Friedrich I. ([?opera], 5), Oct 1846, wint. 1848–9; SS xi, SW xxxi; scenario frag.; planned as opera, but not set, and no sketches survive
80	Jesus von Nazareth ([?opera], 5), Jan–April 1849 (pd: Leipzig, 1887); SS xi, PW viii, SW xxxi; 5-act scenario completed; not set, but 1 musical sketch survives
81	Achilleus ([?opera], 3), early 1849, Feb–July 1850; notes on Achilleus (Leipzig, 1885, SS xii, PW viii) may relate to projected theoretical essay rather than opera
82	Wieland der Schmied (Heldenoper, 3), Dec 1849–March 1850 (pds: GS iii, SS iii, PW i, SW xxxi). Scenario only; offered to Berlioz (via Liszt), A. Röckel and W. Weissheimer, but none set it. Wagner himself made no setting; no musical sketches survive
89	Die Sieger ([opera], 3), May 1856 (ps: Leipzig, 1885, SS xi, PW viii, SW xxxi). Wagner still planning composition in 1878
99	Luthers Hochzeit [?drama], August 1868 (ps: Bayreuth, 1937, SW xxxi); only prose sketches exist. Wagner appears not to have attempted to compose music; in 1878 considered prose play on subject
100	[Lustspiel], 1, Aug 1868 (ps: Zürich and Freiburg, 1975, SW xxxi); only prose scenario exists, but some musical treatment may have been intended
102	Eine Kapitulation (Lustspiel in antiker Manier), Nov 1870 (text: GS ix, SS ix, PW v, SW xxxi); text not set by Wagner, but he may have retouched setting by Richter, which has not survived (possibly destroyed by Richter)

orchestral

10	Overture (Paukenschlag-Ouvertüre), B, sum. 1830, Leipzig, 25 Dec 1830, lost
11	Overture (Politische Ouvertüre), ?Sept 1830, lost and ?inc.
12	Overture to Die Braut von Messina (F. von Schiller), sum, or aut. 1830, ?lost
13	Orch work, e, frag., ?1830 (possibly to be identified with WWV 12); SW xviii/1
14	Overture, C (in 6/8 time), end 1830, lost
17	Overture, E, early 1831, lost and ?inc.
20	Overture (Concert Overture no.1), d, sum./aut. 1831, Leipzig, 25 Dec 1831; B xx, SW xviii/1
24	Overture, e, and incidental music to König Enzio (E. Raupach), wint. 1831–2, Leipzig, 17 Feb 1832 (Leipzig, 1907), SW xviii/1
25	Entreactes tragiques, no.1, D, no.2, c, probably early 1832, SW xviii/1
27	Concert Overture no.2, C, March 1832, Leipzig, ?end March 1832; B xx, SW xviii/1
29	Symphony, C, ?April–June 1832, Prague, Nov 1832 (Leipzig, 1911), B xx, SW xviii/1
35	Symphony, E, inc. [1st movt and 29 bars of Adagio], sketches orch. F. Mottl, Aug–Sept 1834, Munich, 13 Oct 1988
37	Overture, E, and incidental music to Columbus (T. Apel), Dec 1834–Jan 1835, Magdeburg, 16 Feb 1835 (Leipzig, 1907); SW xviii/2
39	Overture, ‘Polonia’, C, May–July 1836, Königsberg, ?wint. 1836–7 (Leipzig, 1907); SW xviii/2
41	Incidental music to Die letzte Heidenverschwörung in Preussen (J. Singer), frag., ?Feb 1837, Königsberg, ?17 Feb 1837; SW xv
42	Overture ‘Rule Britannia’, D, March 1837, Riga, ?19 March 1838 (Leipzig, 1907); SW xviii/2
59	Eine Faust-Ouvertüre (J.W. von Goethe), d, Dec 1839–Jan 1840, rev. Jan 1855, Dresden, 22 July 1844 (1st version), Zürich, 23 Jan 1855 (2nd version) (Leipzig, 1855); B xviii, SW xviii/2/3
73	Trauermusik, on motifs from C.M. von Weber’s Euryanthe, Nov 1844, Dresden, 14 Dec 1844; B xx, SW xviii/2
78	Symphonies (sketches only), 1846–7
97	Huldigungsmarsch, E, Aug 1864, Munich, 5 Oct 1864 (version for military band) (Mainz, 1890); Vienna, 12 Nov 1871 (orch version) (Mainz, 1871); B xviii, SW xviii/3
98	Romeo und Julie (sketches only), spr. 1868 (Karlsruhe, 1943); SW xxi
103	Siegfried Idyll, E, end Nov–Dec 1870, Tribschen, 25 Dec 1870 (Mainz, 1878); B, xviii, SW xviii/3
104	Kaisermarsch, B, with unison ‘people’s chorus’ ad lib, Feb–mid-March 1871, Berlin, 14 April 1871 (Leipzig, 1871); B xviii, SW xviii/3
107	Plans for overtures and symphonies (inc.); themes and melodies, 1874–83, incl. sketch in E inscribed by Cosima Wagner as ‘Melodie der Porazzi’, 1882, and theme in C marked ‘Tempo di Porazzi’, 1882
110	Grosser Festmarsch (Centennial March), G, Feb–March 1876, Philadelphia, 10 May 1876 (Mainz, 1876); B xviii, SW xviii/3