Wesendonck Lieder

Wesendonck Lieder
Lieder by Richard Wagner
Portrait of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
CatalogueWWV 91
TextPoems by Mathilde Wesendonck
LanguageGerman
Composed1857 (1857)–1858
Scoringvoice and piano

Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91, is the common name of a set of five songs for female voice and piano by Richard Wagner, Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (Five Poems for a Female Voice). He set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck while he was working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. The songs, together with the Siegfried Idyll, are the two non-operatic works by Wagner most regularly performed.

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