Faust Overture Faust Overture The Faust Overture is a concert overture by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it between 1839 and 1840, intending it to be the first movement of a "Faust Symphony" based on the play "Faust" by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Realizing that he would not finish the planned symphony, Wagner revised the piece between 1843 and 1844, incorporating ideas from the other planned movements, and creating instead a single-movement concert overture. He made a final revision in 1855. The work is one of Wagner's few compositions intended for the concert hall, rather than the theatre.
Julius Caesar (overture) 9. Eric Sams suggests there are many other clues throughout Schumann's works, including a cipher for "C-A-E-S-A-R" in the opening chords of the "Julius Caesar" overture. The work has been recorded a number of times, but is not often performed in concert. Julius Caesar (overture) The Julius Caesar overture, Op. 128, is a concert overture written in 1851 by Robert Schumann, inspired by Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" and influenced by the "Egmont" and "Coriolan" overtures of Ludwig van Beethoven. "Julius Caesar" is usually associated with two other Schumann concert overtures written about that time, also inspired by great literature: "The