Instrumentation: brass ensemble: Bb Picc. Tpt., Eb Tpt., 2 Bb Tpt., 4 Hn., 2 T. Tbn., B. Tbn., Euph, Tba., Timp. (& triangle)

For brass ensemble - score 48 p. & parts. In the audio sample, you can listen to excerpts from this piece.

The Piano Sonata that Wagner composed in the summer of 1853 is a lesser-known work created for Mathilde Wesendonck, the artistic wife of a prosperous silk merchant. Their impossible love affair served as inspiration for Wagner's later masterpiece, Tristan und I...