page_title: Richard Wetz
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Wetz / Works
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Titelblatt des Klavierauszuges des Requiems von Richard Wetz (1875-1935)
context_page_description: Richard Wetz was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he "seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history".
context_section_description: The list of works of Richard Wetz contains 58 Opuses, in addition there are a small number of compositions which were published without numbering. Op. 1-4 and Op. 6 are not considered discoverable any longer, and the composer declared some other early works provided with opus figures as invalid.
  Opera
  Judith, Op. 13 (3 Acts; Libretto: Richard Wetz)
  Das ewige Feuer (The Eternal Fire), Op. 19 (1 Act; Libretto: Richard Wetz. Published 1910)
  Choir works
  Traumsommernacht (Summer's-Night Dream), Op. 14 for women's choir and orchestra (pub. Kistner, 1912)
  (Recording: Augsburg college of music chamber choir, Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, 2004)
  Gesang des Lebens (Song of Life), Op. 29 for boys' choir and orchestra (pub. Kistner, 1910)
  (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic and State Youth Choir, Werner Andreas Albert, 2001)
  Chorlied aus Oedipus auf Colonos "Nicht geboren ist das Beste" (Choir song from Oedipus on Colonos: "Not born is the best"), Op. 31 for mixed choir and orchestra (after Sophocles) (pub. Kistner, 1912)
  Hyperion, Op. 32 for baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (after Hölderlin), vocal score published by Kistner, 1912
  (Recording: Markus Köhler, Augsburg college of music chamber choir, Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, 2004)
  Der dritte Psalm (The third Psalm), Op. 37 for baritone, mixed choir and orchestra
  Four secular songs (Kyrie, Et incarnatus est, Crucifixus, Agnus Dei) for choir, A cappella, Op. 44
  Kreuzfahrerlied (Crusader song), Op. 46 for mixed choir (after Hartmann von Aue) (published 1910)
  Requiem in B minor, Op. 50 for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra (pub. 1925)
  (Recording: Marietta Zumbült, Mario Hoff, Erfurt Cathedral Choir, Weimar Philharmonic Choir, Thuringian Weimar State Orchestra, George Alexander Albrecht,CPO 2003.)
  Ein Weihnachts-Oratorium auf alt-deutsche Gedichte  (A Christmas Oratorio on old-German poems), Op. 53 for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra
  Drei Weihnachtsmotetten für unbegleiteten gem. Chor, Op. 58
  Liebe, Leben, Ewigkeit, (Love, life, eternity) Oratory fragment (after Goethe, missing)
  Orchestral works
  Kleist-Ouvertüre in D minor, Op. 16 (Kistner, 1908)
  (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, CPO 1999)
  Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 40 (pub. Simrock, 1924)
  (Recording: Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Roland Bader, CPO 1994)
  Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 47 (pub. 1921)
  (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, CPO 1999)
  Symphony No. 3 in B♭ minor, Op. 48
  (Recordings: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, CPO 2001)
  (Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Erich Peter, 1981, Sterling)
  Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 57 (pub. 1933)
  (Recording: Ulf Wallin (Violin), Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, Werner Andreas Albert, CPO 2003)
  Chamber music
  Sonata for Solo Violin in G major, Op. 33 (Kistner, 1913)
  String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 43 (Kistner, 1918)
  String Quartet No. 2 in E minor, Op. 49 (Simrock, 1924)
  Organ music
  Passacaglia and Fugue in D minor, Op. 55 (pub. 1930)
  (Recording: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Silvius von Kessel, 2000, Motette)
  (Recording: "Orgelland Niederlausitz Vol. 1", Lothar Knappe, 2003, H'ART)
  Kleine Toccata in E minor
  Piano music
  Romantische Variationen über ein Originalthema (Romantic variations on an original theme), Op. 42 (published 1917)
  Songs
  over 100 songs for voice and piano, including:
  Op. 5, 6 Lieder für eine mittlere Singstimme mit Begleitung des Klaviers., a set published in 1901, including Wiegenlied (Cradle song), Op. 5 No. 3
  Die Muschel (The shell) Op. 9 No. 2 (poem by Richard Schaukal. Published 1904)
  Op. 10. Five songs for soprano with piano accompaniment
  Op. 15. Six songs for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment
  Op. 20. Five songs for baritone or mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment
  Op. 21. Five songs for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment.
  Op. 22. Five songs for soprano or mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment.
  also some songs with orch
caption: The title page of Requiem in B Minor, one of Wetz' many works.
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