Editing Richard Wagner (section)

=== Non-operatic music ===
[[File:Gill Wagner.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[André Gill]] suggesting that Wagner's music was ear-splitting. Cover of ''[[L'Éclipse]]'' 18 April 1869.|alt=A cartoon showing a misshapen figure of a man with a tiny body below a head with a prominent nose and chin standing on the lobe of a human ear. The figure is hammering the sharp end of a crochet symbol into the inner part of the ear and blood pours out.]]

Apart from his operas, Wagner composed relatively few pieces of music. These include his [[Symphony in C major (Wagner)|Symphony in C major]] (written at the age of 19), the ''[[Faust Overture]]'' (the only completed part of an intended symphony on the subject), some [[concert overture]]s, and choral and piano pieces.{{sfn|von Westernhagen|1980|p=138}} His most commonly performed work that is not an extract from an opera is the ''[[Siegfried Idyll]]'' for chamber orchestra, which has several motifs in common with the ''Ring'' cycle.{{sfn|Millington|2001a|p=311–312}} The ''[[Wesendonck Lieder]]'' are also often performed, either in the original piano version or with orchestral accompaniment.{{refn|Normally the orchestration by [[Felix Mottl]] is used ([http://hz.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/7/73/IMSLP66082-PMLP45968-Wagner-WWV091.FS.pdf score] available at [http://www.imslp.org/ IMSLP] website), although Wagner arranged one of the songs for chamber orchestra.{{sfn|Millington|2001a|p=318}}|group=n}} More rarely performed are the ''American Centennial March'' (1876), and ''[[Das Liebesmahl der Apostel]]'' (''The Love Feast of the Apostles''), a piece for male choruses and orchestra composed in 1843 for the city of Dresden.{{sfn|Millington|2001a|p=314}}

After completing ''Parsifal'', Wagner expressed his intention to turn to the writing of symphonies,{{sfn|von Westernhagen|1980|p=111}} and several sketches dating from the late 1870s and early 1880s have been identified as work towards this end.{{sfn|Deathridge|2008|pp=189–205}} The overtures and certain orchestral passages from Wagner's middle- and late-stage operas are commonly played as concert pieces. For most of these, Wagner wrote or rewrote short passages to ensure musical coherence. The "[[Bridal Chorus]]" from ''Lohengrin'' is frequently played as the bride's processional [[wedding march]] in English-speaking countries.{{sfn|Kennedy|1980|loc=p. 701, ''Wedding March''}}