Wagner Leitmotives - 96 - Blood Brotherhood I

Leitmotives from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle). This leitmotif is known as “Blood Brotherhood I“ from Götterdämmerung which is first heard in the first act. This leitmotif is heard when Siegfried and Gunther seal their friendship (and doom themselves later in the opera with death) with an oath of brotherhood. Note the contour of the line is like that of the “Love Tragedy“ leitmotif. Leitmotives associated with “Blood Brotherhood I“ are: “Love Tragedy“