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Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung)

The "Ring of the Nibelung" consists of four music-dramas-"Das Rheingold" (The Rhinegold), "Die Walküre" (The Valkyr), "Siegfried," and "Götterdämmerung" (Dusk of the Gods). These books were written in inverse order. Wagner made a dramatic sketch of the Nibelung myth as early as the autumn of 1848, and between then and the autumn of 1850 he wrote the "Death of Siegfried." This subsequently became the "Dusk of the Gods." Meanwhile Wagner’s ideas as to the proper treatment of the myth seem to have undergone a change. "Siegfried’s Death" ended with Brünnhilde leading Siegfried to Valhalla, -- dramatic, but without the deeper ethical significance of the later version, when Wagner evidently conceived the purpose of connecting the final catastrophe of his trilogy with the "Dusk of the Gods," or end of all things, in Northern mythology,