Siegfried’s Funeral March
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Siegfried’s Funeral March is a powerful orchestral passage from Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung, renowned for its dramatic, solemn depiction of the hero Siegfried’s death and legacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siegfried’s Funeral March canonical | 2 |
| Siegfrieds Trauermarsch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9507951 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siegfried’s Funeral March Context triple: [Götterdämmerung, featuresMotif, Siegfried’s Funeral March]
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A.
Funeral March
"Funeral March" is a somber, elegiac piano piece best known as one of the most memorable numbers from Felix Mendelssohn's collection Songs Without Words.
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B.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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C.
Trauermusik
Trauermusik is a short, solemn piece for viola and string orchestra by Paul Hindemith, composed in 1936 as a memorial tribute to King George V.
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D.
Liebestraum No. 3
Liebestraum No. 3 is a famous romantic piano piece by Franz Liszt, renowned for its lyrical melody and expressive, virtuosic writing.
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E.
Valse Triste
Valse Triste is a ballet choreographed by Peter Martins, set to Jean Sibelius’s melancholic waltz of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siegfried’s Funeral March Target entity description: Siegfried’s Funeral March is a powerful orchestral passage from Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung, renowned for its dramatic, solemn depiction of the hero Siegfried’s death and legacy.
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A.
Funeral March
"Funeral March" is a somber, elegiac piano piece best known as one of the most memorable numbers from Felix Mendelssohn's collection Songs Without Words.
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B.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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C.
Trauermusik
Trauermusik is a short, solemn piece for viola and string orchestra by Paul Hindemith, composed in 1936 as a memorial tribute to King George V.
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D.
Liebestraum No. 3
Liebestraum No. 3 is a famous romantic piano piece by Franz Liszt, renowned for its lyrical melody and expressive, virtuosic writing.
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E.
Valse Triste
Valse Triste is a ballet choreographed by Peter Martins, set to Jean Sibelius’s melancholic waltz of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert work
ⓘ
opera excerpt ⓘ orchestral piece ⓘ |
| associatedConductor |
Georg Solti
ⓘ
Herbert von Karajan ⓘ Wilhelm Furtwängler ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Das Rheingold
ⓘ
Die Walküre ⓘ Siegfried ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacter | Siegfried ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPerformance | Germany ⓘ |
| culturalContext | German Romantic opera ⓘ |
| depicts |
Siegfried’s death
ⓘ
Siegfried’s legacy ⓘ |
| featuresInstrument |
brass
ⓘ
strings ⓘ timpani ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocationWithOpera |
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
ⓘ
linked to:
Festspielhaus Bayreuth
|
| firstPerformanceWithOpera | 17 August 1876 ⓘ |
| genre |
Romantic music
ⓘ
programmatic music ⓘ |
| hasKey | B minor (commonly cited) ⓘ |
| hasTitleInGerman |
Siegfrieds Trauermarsch
ⓘ
linked to:
Siegfried’s Funeral March
|
| influenced | late-Romantic orchestral writing ⓘ |
| languageOfParentWork | German ⓘ |
| movementType | funeral march ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
dense orchestral texture
ⓘ
extensive use of leitmotifs ⓘ rich chromatic harmony ⓘ |
| orchestration | full symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| partOf |
Der Ring des Nibelungen
ⓘ
Götterdämmerung ⓘ |
| performancePractice | often performed as a standalone orchestral piece ⓘ |
| period | 19th century ⓘ |
| positionInWork |
Act III of Götterdämmerung
ⓘ
linked to:
Götterdämmerung
|
| recordedBy |
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
ⓘ
Berlin Philharmonic ⓘ Vienna Philharmonic ⓘ |
| tempoIndication | slow ⓘ |
| tone |
dramatic
ⓘ
solemn ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
concert repertoire
ⓘ
funeral and memorial occasions ⓘ |
| usesMotifFrom |
Siegfried’s leitmotif
ⓘ
Valhalla motif ⓘ
linked to:
Valhalla
heroic themes from earlier Ring operas ⓘ |
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Subject: Siegfried’s Funeral March Description of subject: Siegfried’s Funeral March is a powerful orchestral passage from Richard Wagner’s opera Götterdämmerung, renowned for its dramatic, solemn depiction of the hero Siegfried’s death and legacy.
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linked to: Siegfried’s Funeral March