Wagner Siegfried Ring des Nibelungen

Album by Richard Wagner

Der Ring des Nibelungen is a cycle of four music dramas by the German composer Richard Wagner, first performed as a complete cycle in Bayreuth in 1876. The cycle exemplifies Wagner's mature musical language, employing extensive leitmotif technique, continuous through-composed orchestral textures, an expanded harmonic vocabulary and large-scale orchestration, and it represents the culmination of his ideas about music drama in the 19th century.