Wagner Leitmotives - 31 - Götterdämmerung

Leitmotives from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle). This leitmotif is known as “Götterdämmerung“ from Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) which is first heard in the fourth scene. The leitmotif, Götterdämmerung (translated “The Twilight of the Gods“), is played here to foreshadow the fall of the gods in the final opera of the cycle where it is the final leitmotif you hear in the opera. Essentially, this leitmotif is an inversion of the leitmotif, “Nature.“ Leitmotives associated with, a