Editing Josef Wagner (composer) (section)

== Music ==
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[[File:Wagner-Josef-Franz_Holzhacker.jpg|thumb|Tyrolean Lumberjacks' sheet music]]
By the time of Wagner's death in 1908, he had composed around 400 to 800 compositions,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2021-02-09 |title=Josef Franz Wagner |url=https://heritagebrassband.com/2021/02/09/josef-franz-wagner/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=www.heritagebrassband.com |language=en}}</ref> although only around 250 were published.<ref name="music_dict23"/><ref name=":0" /> Although majority of these were marches (he had published 206 marches),<ref name=":52"/> he had also composed waltzes, overtures, tone poems and operettas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joseph Franz Wagner |url=https://www.rundel.de/en/person/joseph_franz_wagner/1399 |access-date=25 December 2024 |website=Rundel}}</ref>

Wagner is best known for his 1893 [[March (music)|march]] "''Unter dem Doppeladler''" (Op. 159) or "Under the Double Eagle", referring to the double eagle in the [[coat of arms of Austria-Hungary]].<ref name="vcr2">{{cite web |title=PastMasters public domain web listing for Josef Wagner. |url=http://www.r-vcr.com/~pastmasters/composer2/wagner.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041014100634/http://www.r-vcr.com/~pastmasters/composer2/wagner.htm |archivedate=2004-10-14}}</ref> The march became a favourite part of the repertoire of American composer and bandleader [[John Philip Sousa]], whose band recorded it three times.<ref>University of California Santa Barbara: Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings [http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix Matrix BVE-355. Matrix BVE-355. Under the Double Eagle march / Sousa's Band] Retrieved August 23, 2011.</ref><ref>University of California Santa Barbara: Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings [http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200000662/B-355-Under_the_Double_Eagle_march Matrix B-355. Under the Double Eagle (march) / Sousa's Band] Retrieved August 23, 2011.</ref> The piece was the official regimental march of Austrian [[Artillery]] Regiment Number 2 until its dissolution in 2007.<ref name="vcr2" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Artillerieregiment 2 wird aufgelöst – oesterreich.ORF.at |url=http://kaernten.orf.at/stories/197976/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725042843/http://kaernten.orf.at/stories/197976/ |archive-date=2011-07-25 |access-date=2011-05-05 |publisher=}}</ref> Below are some notable published works:<ref>{{Cite web |title=J. F. Wagner |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/107208/Wagner_J._F |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Discography of American Historical Recordings}}</ref>

=== Marches ===

* ''Der Stutzer'' (The Dude's March; 1890)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pratt |first=Charles E. |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-ps/326/ |title=The Dude's March |last2=Wagner |first2=J. F. |date=1890 |publisher=Century Music Pub. Co |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Unter dem Doppeladler]], op. 159'' (Under the Double Eagle; 1893)
* ''Gigerl Marsch, op. 150'' ({{ill|Gigerl|lt=Gigerl|de|Gigerl}} March; 1900) - by the beginning of the 20th century, over 300,000 copies of the march's sheet music had been sold.<ref name=":52"/>
* ''Schwert Österreichs'' (Sword of Austria)
* ''47er Regiments-Marsch'' (47th Regiment March)
* ''Tiroler Holzhackerbuab'n'' (Tyrolean Lumberjacks)

=== Operettas ===
In his career, Wagner composed three [[operetta]]s listed below:<ref name=":0" />

* ''Herzbub'' (Jack of Hearts; 1895)<ref>{{cite web |title=Opera Composers: W |url=http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/W.html |publisher=}}</ref>
* ''Der Kognakkönig'' (The Cognac King; 1897)
* ''Der Soubrettenjäger'' (The Soubrette Hunter; 1905)