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The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Prelude to Act 3 - Walkürenritt (The Ride of the Valkyries) Scene 1. The Valkyries congregate on the mountain-top, each carrying a dead hero and chattering excitedly. Brünnhilde arrives with Sieglinde, and begs her sisters for help, but they dare not defy Wotan. Sieglinde tells Brünnhilde that without Siegmund she no longer wishes to live.
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
Ride of the Valkyries" is the popular term for the music of the beginning of act 3 of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre. Ride of the Valkyrie(s) may also refer to: Ride of the Valkyrie; The Ride of the Valkyrs, a 1909 painting by John Charles Dollman "Hard Drive Courage / The Ride of the Valkyries", an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog
In poetry, valkyries appear in "Die Walküren " by H. Heine (appearing in Romanzero, 1847), "Die Walküren " (1864) by H. v. Linge, and "Sköldmon " (appearing in Gömda Land, 1904). [74] In music, they appear in Die Walküre by Richard Wagner (1870), from which the "Ride of the Valkyries" is the best-known theme.
Richard Wagner. The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. [1] Even today he is associated in the minds of many with Nazism and his operas are often thought to extol the virtues of German nationalism. The writer and Wagner scholar Bryan Magee has written:
"The "Ride of the Valkyries" (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular term for the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four operas by Richard Wagner that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen." They're NOT the same; Wagner has, as with many an opera composer, moved things around for concert performance.