Siegfried's Death
Richard Wagner (arr. V F Safranek)
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Subtitle: Funeral March for Gotterdammerung
General Info
Year: 1876 /
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion tab, [xxx above]. This work may be borrowed from the Chatfield Music Lending Library.
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- D-flat Piccolo
- Flute
- Oboe
- Bassoon
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-I-II
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- B-flat Bass Saxophone
- B-flat Cornet Solo-I-II
- B-flat Trumpet I-II
- E-flat Horn or Alto I-II-III-IV
- Horn in F I-II
- Trombone I-II-III
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium BC & TC
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion
- (Percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Siegfried’s Death was the original title of the prose sketch for an opera that grew, over the span of twenty-eight years, into the most monumental undertaking in the history of music -- the four-opera cycle -The Ring of the Nibelungen. The murder of the young hero Siegfried was Wagner’s starting point, and it remains the climax of the full seventeen-hour work.
- Program Note from Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert program, June 2013
Siegfried's Funeral March is taken from Act Three after he has been murdered by Hagen. It is made up of musical motives from previous operas that tell of Siegfried's background, including the Volsung theme, Siegmund and Sieglinde's theme, the Sword, Brünnhilde's love theme and the curse of the Ring.
- Program Note by Iain Farrington
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- San Jose (Calif.) Wind Symphony (David Vickerman, conductor) - 15 March 2026
- Soochow University School of Music (Suzhou,China) Symphonic Band (Juan Manuel García-Cano, conductor) – December 2021
- Kanawha Valley Community Band (Charleston, W.V.) (David Williams, conductor) – 20 April 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Album Leaf (arr. Johnson) (1959)
- Awake (arr. Houseknecht) (1868/1957)
- Chor der Junger from "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" (arr. Pohler) (1843/)
- Die Meistersinger (arr. Milford) (1868/1998)
- Die Meistersinger (arr. Osterling) (1868/1959)
- Die Meistersinger Overture (tr. Hindsley). See: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Die Meistersinger, Prelude (arr. Moses-Tobani/H.R. Kent) (1868/1904/1948)
- Die Meistersinger Themes (arr. Daehn) (1868/2009)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (tr. Hindsley) (1868/196-?)
- Die Walkure, Act 2, Scene 4 (arr. King) (1870/)
- Elsa Entering the Cathedral (arr. Brooks) (1848/1905)
- Elsa's feierlicher Zug zum Münster (tr. Nefs) (1848/2017)
- Elsa's March Firmly to the Cathedral (arr. Takahashi) (1848/2021)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Bocook) (1848/1997)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Bourgeois) (1848/1997)
- Elsa'a Procession to the Catheral (arr. Brooks). See: Elsa Entering the Cathedral
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Cailliet) (1848/1938)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (arr. Cherry) (1848/1999/2019)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (arr. Goldhammer). See: Elsas Zug zum Münster
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Nefs). See: Elsa's feierlicher Zug zum Münster
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Patterson). See: Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Patterson)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Votta) (1848/1994)
- Elsas Zug zum Münster (arr. Goldhammer) (1849/2010)
- Enchantement du vendredi saint (arr. Cayrol). See: Parsifal: Enchantement du vendredi saint
- Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. Godfrey) (1869/1906)
- Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. O'Neill) (1869/1930)
- Evening Star (arr. Barnard) (1845/1927)
- Excerpts Act One from "Lohengrin" (tr. Cailliet) (1850/1940)
- Festgesang zur Enthüllung des Friedrich August-Monuments (1843)
- Festmusik (arr. Seifert-Kressbronn) (1843/1982)
- Fest Marsch from "Tannhäuser" (tr. Rumbelow) (1845/1997)
- The Flying Dutchman (tr. Hindsley) (1843/197-?)
- The Flying Dutchman Overture (arr. Godfrey) (1843/1955)
- Funeral Music from "The Dusk of the Gods" (arr. Godfrey) (1876/1919)
- Gathering of the Armies (arr. Friedman) (1850/1995)
- Grand Fantasie from "Die Walkure" (arr. Seidel) (1870/19--?)
- Grosse Fantasie aus Richard Wagner's Walküre. See: Grand Fantasie from "Die Walkure"
- Gruß seiner Treuen an Friedrich August (1844)
- Homage March (ed. Bourgeois) (1864/2004)
- Huldigungsmarsch (arr. Goldhammer) (1864/2009)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Reed) (1864/2002)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Schaefer) (1864/1971)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Whitwell) (1864/2015)
- Invocation of Alberich (arr. Cailliet) (1869/1940)
- Kaisermarsch (tr. Godfrey) (1871/1912)
- King Heinrich’s Call (tr. Bourgeois) (1850/1983)
- Liebestod (arr. Shishikura) (1856/2014)
- Liebestod (arr. Bainum) (1856/1964)
- Lohengrin (arr. Patterson) (1850/2016)
- Lohengrin (arr. Tamanini) (1850/2005)
- Lohengrin: Introduction to Act III (arr. Drumm) (1850/1937)
- March from "Tannhäuser" (arr. Lake) (1845/1926)
- Nibelungen March (arr. Stretton) (c.1874/1909)
- Overture to Rienzi (arr. Grabel) (1842/1933)
- Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" (arr. Laurendeau) (1843/1912)
- Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" (arr. McInturf) (1843/)
- Parsifal: Enchantement du vendredi saint (arr. Cayrol) (1857-82/2010)
- Pilgrim Chorus (arr. Lake) (1845/1924)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Geese) (1845/2009)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Musser) (1845/)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Musser; ed. Rapp) (1845/2009)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Reed) (1845/1991)
- Prelude to Act I of "Die Meistersinger" (trans. Kreines) (1862/2012)
- Prelude to Act III, Dance and Finale from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" (arr. Thompson) (1868/1985)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengren" (tr. Hindsley) (1850/)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (tr. Brand) (1850/2001)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (arr. McAlister and Reed) (1850/2006)
- Prelude to Act III of "Lohengrin" (arr. Erickson) (1977)
- Prelude to Parsifal (tr. Bourgeois) (1882/2016)
- Procession of the Knights of the Holy Grail from "Parsifal" (arr. Houseknecht) (1882/1964)
- Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1846-48/1997)
- Ride of the Valkyries (arr. Hernandez) (1870/)
- Ride of the Valkyries (arr. Laurendeau) (1870/1908)
- Ride of the Valkyries (tr. Longwood) (1870/2000)
- Ride of the Valkyries (tr. Patterson) (1870/)
- Rienzi (tr. Hindsley) (1842/1963)
- Rienzi Overture (arr. Meyrelles) (1842/1892)
- The Ring (arr. Higgins) (1848-1874/2020)
- Sei uns gegrüßt (arr. Goldhammer) (1844/2013)
- Seigfried Fantasie (arr. Seidel) (1876/1893)
- Selections from Act III of "Die Meistersinger von Nurnbürg" (arr. Hanna) (1868/2015)
- Siegfried Fantasy (arr. Seidel) (1871/1893)
- Siegfried Idyll (1870)
- Siegfried's Death (arr. Safranek) (1876/)
- Siegfried's Funeral March (tr. Tanick) (1876/)
- Siegfried's Funeral March from "Gotterdammerung" (tr. Bourgeois) (1876/)
- Siegfried's Funeral Music (arr. Whear) (1876/1966)
- Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine from "Die Götterdämmerung" (arr. Cailliet) (1876/1937)
- Suite from "Die Meistersinger" (tr. Schaefer; ed. Doty) (1868/)
- Tannhäuser (arr. Lake) (1845/1926)
- Tannhäuser Grand March (tr. McAlister) (1845/2005)
- Tannhäuser March (arr. E. Fall) (1845/)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Fall) (1845/1936)
- Tannhäuser Overture (tr. Safranek) (1845/1913)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Sousa) (1845/)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Winterbottom) (1845/1903)
- Tannhäuser Selection (arr. Lake) (1845/1926)
- Trauersinfonie (ed. Votta/Boyd) (1844/1924/1994)
- Trauersinfonie (tr. Leidzen) (1844/1924/1949)
- Tristan und Isolde (tr. Janssen) (1862/2015)
- Vorspiel und Liebestod (arr. Godfrey) (1865/1909)
- Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from "Die Walküre" (arr. Lake) (1874/1937)
Resources
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert program, June 2013
- "Richard Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral March (Götterdämmerung)". Iain Farrington. Web. Accessed 17 April 2018
- Wagner, R.; Safranek, V. [1900?]. Siegfried's Death: Funeral March for Gotterdammerung [score]. Carl Fischer: [s.l.].