title: Die Laune des Verliebten
text: # Die Laune des Verliebten
  
  Die Laune des Verliebten (The Mood of the One in Love) was Richard Wagner's first attempt at an opera project. Written in about 1830, when Wagner was 17, the libretto was based on a play of the same name [de] by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wagner wrote a scene for three female voices and a tenor aria before abandoning the project. There is no performance history for these fragments, and neither words nor music have survived.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * "(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner". Grove Music Online. 2002 [1992]. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O905605.
  * Opera
  