Youth works by Richard Wagner

[gprengel]

I am not a Wagner fan, but there are two very unknown works from his youth (around the year 1835) which have wonderful passages which to me are very much influenced by Beethoven: I am talking about his symphony in C and his opera "Die Feen". To this opera I was listening today on my way from work (about 5 beautiful scenes I put on my MP3 player). Do you know these works? They spoke more to me than his latter famous works.

Gerd

[Hofrat]

Originally posted by gprengel:
I am not a Wagner fan, but there are two very unknown works from his youth (around the year 1835) which have wonderful passages which to me are very much influenced by Beethoven: I am talking about his symphony in C and his opera "Die Feen". To this opera I was listening today on my way from work (about 5 beautiful scenes I put on my MP3 player). Do you know these works? They spoke more to me than his latter famous works.

Gerd

Gerd,

You might want to try our mutual friend at the Unheard Beethoven website. I understand that he has realized some early Wagner sketches.


Hofrat

[Hofrat]

Originally posted by gprengel:
I am not a Wagner fan, but there are two very unknown works from his youth (around the year 1835) which have wonderful passages which to me are very much influenced by Beethoven: I am talking about his symphony in C and his opera "Die Feen". To this opera I was listening today on my way from work (about 5 beautiful scenes I put on my MP3 player). Do you know these works? They spoke more to me than his latter famous works.

Gerd

Gerd;

There is a CD for auction on eBay featuring Wagner's piano sonatas!!


Hofrat

[Sorrano]

Koch/Schwann has a cd out (multiple volumes; I only have volume 1) that covers the complete piano works of Wagner. It's ID number is 3-1361-2.

Also, EMI Classics has a CD featuring Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder (arr. by Henze); Rienzi, Das Liebesverbot, and Faust overtures; and the E Major Symphony (one movement). The catalogue number is 7243 5 56165 2 4.