Wagner's Works on Midi

For an even better understanding of Ludwig, I suggest listening to some Wagner music that was so important to the King. Just click on the title and the Midi file should download in under a minute.

Note - You can only hear these midi files if you have a soundcard properly installed and working. File sizes are stated in kilobytes.

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'Ride of the Valkyrie'. 39k. Possibly Wagner's most famous piece. Used in "Apocalypse Now".

'Bridal March' from Lohengrin. 8k. The world's most popular wedding march today.

'Prelude' from Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. 214k. A magnificent piece of orchestral music; grand, sweeping and glorious! (A midi version doesn't do this justice!)

'Prelude' from Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. 8k. More sublime than Act 1, this is a typical 'Wagner' piece of music, light and airy in places, foreboding in others.

'Overture' from Tannhäuser. 127k. An example of pre-Ring Wagner. Sublime and beautiful. (This is a piano version written by Franz Liszt.)

'Prelude' from Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde. Not a particularly nice midi, but as this was Ludwig's favourite Wagner opera, I have included it here.

'Siegried Idyll'. 86k. A light, instrumental piece written by Wagner as his wife's 33rd birthday present in 1870. A beautiful midi file.

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