A leading resource for the promotion of the Wagner Tuba, the history of the instrument and the composers who have enriched its repertoire

The Wagner Tuba is one of the least well-known orchestral instruments in the world today. It merits a better understanding and an improved profile in music as a whole. This is the reason we have championed its cause since 2001.

Year after year we receive increasing numbers of visitors to wagner-tuba.com. All are looking for information about the instrument such as its origins, who made the first Wagner tuba,  what is the instrument's range and physical properties, position in the orchestra, notation and, of course, its connection to Richard Wagner.

We have a Wagner Tuba News section with special features on some of the interesting events and noteworthy news from around the world. Our series of interviews in 2020 about horn players in lockdown proved very popular and offered an insight into the challenges that horn players faced and how they overcame them. For many hornists, their options for learning, teaching and performing music expanded exponentially. Tackling the new learning curve of using remote communication for their work worked out well and ultimately proved very beneficial.

Most of our site's visitors are horn players who occasionally play the Wagner tuba. Some of them are professional, some amateur and some are students of music who are looking to learn more about the instrument. As the Wagner tuba is a brass instrument, we also have pages dedicated to the Brass Section. These include the instrument played primarily by most Wagner tubists: French Horn. We are committed to the promotion of the Wagner tuba as much now if not more than when we first launched the site in 2001. The instrument has a fascinating history and there are some wonderful past and present composers who have enriched its repertoire. The instrument's very name is colourful yet also ambiguous. So, it comes as no surprise that it seems to cause confusion as to its true identity!

This website is dedicated to bringing the instrument into the spotlight in the 21st century. We hope our readers will be encouraged to a better understanding and greater enthusiasm for this noble yet little used instrument.