Richard Wagner's most touching melody

[TheGSMoeller]

Wotan's farewell in Die Walkure.

[Lisztianwagner]

Well, the thread has waited more than four years for you to answer, Ilaria : )

Haha
Well, as I said before, I usually think of Wagner's themes as an unique, continuous flow of music.

[knight66]

The main theme from Seigfried Idyll.

Mike

[Lisztianwagner]

Hmm, that's a rather hard question for me
Honestly, I couldn't choose a favourite theme, they are so many: the impressive, ethereal melody of the strings in Lohengrin's prelude, the powerful, stormy opening of Der Fliegende Holländer, Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, the Magic Fire from Die Walküre, or the motives of the Rhinegold, the Walkyrie, Siegfried, Walhall and Redemption by Love, etc.
I usually think of the themes as an unique, continuous flow of music, since they develop and merge during the composition.
Though, there's not a single note of Wagner's operas I don't consider incredibly moving, passionate and overwhelming, those works show all the innovations to expand the expressive strenght of music: brilliant textures, rich chromatism taken to extremes, beautiful harmony, associative use of tonality and the leitmotiven, which evolve together with the characters, in an almost symphonic develpment.

I might choose three motives: Magic Fire, Sword and Redemption by Love.