If you’ve passed a good deal of your Sunday enjoying Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger” on WWFM, perhaps you would be interested to drop back before bedtime to hear one of his symphonies.

What? Wagner wrote symphonies? That’s right. He took a crack at writing two of them, in a Beethovenian style, before finding his niche as a revolutionary composer of opera.

Wagner’s Symphony in E will be featured tonight on “The Lost Chord,” alongside early attempts at symphonies by Gustav Holst and Claude Debussy – judging from their mature works, three figures perhaps least likely to attempt sonata form. Impetuous youth!

Tune in, if you’re still up for it, this Sunday night at 11:00 EDT – one hour later than usual, thanks to the outrageous length of the opera – for “Bold Heads on Young Shoulders,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and on wwfm.org.

IMAGES: Symphonies by the young (clockwise from left) Wagner, Holst and Debussy will be heard tonight on “The Lost Chord”