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Nibelung

noun

(German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried.

(German mythology) any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried.

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"Nibelung" Quotes from Famous Books

... up his plan of the Nibelung Trilogy, that is the three operas and a prologue. Early in 1853 the poem in its new form was complete, and in February he sent a copy to Liszt, who answered: "You are truly a wonderful man, and your Nibelung poem is surely the most incredible ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... treasure, heaped and hid, I hope to work some wonders. You shall see! I shall be master of the whole wide world! Ha! the smoke of Alberich's kingdom shall smudge even your flowery mountain-sides and your sparkling rivers. Everybody shall be my slave! Beware of this black Nibelung, I say, for he shall rule ...

— Opera Stories from Wagner • Florence Akin

... unmusical! Unless a person is familiar with Wagner's life, it is impossible to believe how bitter was the opposition to his theories and to his music. Does it seem possible now that he had to struggle for twenty-five years before he could secure the production of his "Ring of the Nibelung"? Yet such was the case. Then, too, he was poor, and sometimes driven to such straits that he ...

— The Loves of Great Composers • Gustav Kobb

... Patronatsscheine [tickets of membership] for the Nibelung performance in Bayreuth (Bayern. N.B.—The King has commanded that henceforth Baiern [Bavaria] shall be spelt with a y), and your letter to Herr Feustel, ...

— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated

Words linked to "Nibelung" : dwarf, mythology, Teuton, gnome, mythical being