Editing Wild Hunt (section)

=== Music ===
The Wild Hunt is the subject of [[Transcendental Étude No. 8 (Liszt)|Transcendental Étude No. 8]] in C minor, "''Wilde Jagd''" (Wild Hunt) by Franz Liszt,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.classicalconnect.com/Piano_Music/Liszt/Transcendental/3991|title=Transcendental Etude No. 8 "Wilde Jagd" – Giorgi Latso – Piano Music – Free classical music online|website=www.classicalconnect.com}}</ref> and appears in [[Karl Maria von Weber]]'s 1821 opera ''[[Der Freischütz]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielmcadam.com/freischutz.html|title=Der Freischutz|website=www.danielmcadam.com}}</ref> and in [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s [[oratorio]] ''[[Gurre-Lieder]]'' of 1911.<ref>{{cite book|title=Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years|pages=37–38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7TTh2HdbjcC&pg=PA37|isbn=9780815328308|last1=Cross|first1=Charlotte Marie|last2=Berman|first2=Russell A.|year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> [[César Franck]]'s orchestral tone poem ''[[Le Chasseur maudit (Franck)|Le Chasseur maudit]]'' (''The Accursed Huntsman'') is based on [[Gottfried August Bürger]]'s ballad ''Der wilde Jäger''.

In act 1 of [[Richard Wagner]]'s 1870 opera ''[[Die Walküre]]'', Siegmund relates that he has been pursued by “Das wütende Heer”, which is an indication to the audience that it is Wotan himself who has called up the storm which has driven him (Siegmund) to Hunding's dwelling.

The subject of [[Stan Jones (songwriter)|Stan Jones]]' American [[country and western music|country]] song "[[(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend|Ghost Riders in the Sky]]" of 1948, which tells of [[cowboy]]s chasing the [[Devil in Christianity|Devil]]'s cattle through the night sky, resembles the European myth.<ref>{{cite web |date=2012-12-09 |title=Ghost Riders In the Sky: The Wild Hunt and the Eternal Stampede |url=https://esoterx.com/2012/12/09/ghost-riders-in-the-sky-the-wild-hunt-and-the-eternal-stampede/ |access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref>

Swedish [[Folk music|folk]] musician [[The Tallest Man on Earth]] released an album in 2010 entitled ''[[The Wild Hunt (The Tallest Man on Earth album)|The Wild Hunt]]'', and in 2013 the [[black metal]] band [[Watain]], also Swedish, released an album with [[The Wild Hunt (Watain album)|the same title]]. German folk band [[Versengold]] released the song "Die wilde Jagt" in 2021, as the first single from their 2022 album ''Was kost die Welt''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.versengold.com/diskografie|title=Versengold Diskografie|website=www.versengold.com|access-date=8 October 2023|language=de}}</ref> English [[doom metal]] band, [[Green Lung]], have a song called “Hunters in the Sky”on their 2023 album This Heathen Land.