WAGNER TUBA

The Wagner tuba combines elements of both the horn and the tuba but it is not an instrument which is frequently heard. Originally created for Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, the Wagner tuba has been written for by many other composers - most notably Anton Bruckner, in whose Symphony No. 7 a quartet of them is first heard in the slow movement in a memorial tribute to Wagner. The euphonium may sometimes used as a substitute when a Wagner tuba cannot be procured.