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Goetterdaemmerung   Listen
noun
Goetterdaemmerung, Gotterdammerung  n.  (German mythology)
1.
A myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
Synonyms: Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods.
2.
An opera by Richard Wagner.





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"Goetterdaemmerung" Quotes from Famous Books



... Munich, in 1869 and 1870 respectively. It will be most convenient in this place to treat 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' as a complete work, although 'Tristan und Isolde' and 'Die Meistersinger' were written and performed before 'Siegfried' and 'Goetterdaemmerung.' ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... was taken up by Anton Seidl, who had been associated with Wagner in the production of the "Ring" at Beyreuth. Under Seidl "Die Meistersinger" had its first performance in America, in 1886; "Tristan und Isolde" and "Siegfried" in 1887; "Die Goetterdaemmerung," in 1888, and "Das Rheingold" in 1889. Thus German opera was well ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee


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