Die Laune des Verliebten

Die Laune des Verliebten
Opera (project) by Richard Wagner
Wagner, c. 1830
Librettist	Richard Wagner
Language	German
Based on	Play [de] by Goethe

Die Laune des Verliebten (The Mood of the One in Love) was Richard Wagner's first attempt at an opera project. Written in about 1830, when Wagner was 17, the libretto was based on a play of the same name [de] by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wagner wrote a scene for three female voices and a tenor aria before abandoning the project. There is no performance history for these fragments, and neither words nor music have survived.

Sources

"(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner". Grove Music Online. 2002 [1992]. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O905605.

Richard Wagner

Complete operas

Early works	Die Feen Das Liebesverbot Rienzi

Romantic operas	Der fliegende Holländer Tannhäuser Lohengrin

Music dramas

Der Ring des Nibelungen	Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung

Tristan und Isolde
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Parsifal

Non-operatic music

Symphony in C major (1832)

Polonia Overture (1836)

Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843)

Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855)

Wesendonck Lieder (1858)

Siegfried Idyll (1870)

Kaisermarsch

Writings

"Art and Revolution"
"The Artwork of the Future"
"Autobiographic Sketch"
"A Communication to My Friends"
"Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music)"
Leubald
Mein Leben
"Music of the Future"
Opera and Drama

Other opera

Opera excerpts	"Bridal Chorus" "Ride of the Valkyries" "Liebestod"

Unfinished operas	Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858; text only)