Die Walküre: The Ride of The Valkyries

Composer: WAGNER, Richard
  • Die Walküre (“The Valkyrie” WWV 86b) is the “First Day” (Part two of four) in Der Ring des Niebelung. Wagner worked on this opera between 1856-1870;1 he had begun the prose draft of the story in 1851.2
  • The work’s first full performance took place on June 26, 1870, at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich. Wagner had conducted excerpts from the opera (in concert) in Vienna on December 26, 1862.3
  • Wagner dedicated this work to his patron King Ludwig II of Bavaria.4
  • Synopsis of Die Walküre from The Metropolitan Opera 

Sources

  1. “Die Walküre, WWV 86B (Wagner, Richard),” IMSLP, accessed May 26, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Walk%C3%BCre%2C_WWV_86B_(Wagner%2C_Richard).
  2. Barry Millington, John Deathridge, Carl Dahlhaus, and Robert Bailey, “Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed May 27, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278269.
  3. Ibid.
  4. “Die Walküre, WWV 86B (Wagner, Richard),” IMSLP.

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