Siegfried Wagner

[joachim]

I'm not talking here about Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried, but about his son Siegfried Wagner, whom he had with Cosima Liszt.
He was born in 1869 in Bayreuth, where he died in 1930.

Like his father, Siegfried Wagner composed operas, but they are different in subject matter, based on fairy tales, and in duration, not exceeding 2.5 hours. But none of them - there is one fortnight - did not enter the repertoire of opera houses, I wonder why. However, personally I find them very beautiful, for example Die heilige Linde or Sonnenflammen or Der Heidenkönig. In addition, the overtures (preludes) of these operas are magnificent.

He also composed a symphony and symphonic poems. The CPO label has published a complete set of his symphonic music in a box of 7 CDs.

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CX%209655

Here is the symphonic poem Sehnsucht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ue3T8Imak