Götterdämmerung in Full Score early years with the Sells

early years with the Sells Brothers Circus

oil lamps fed by whale oil and kerosene

creative illustration

tournament play

the mundane life of the city is recaptured in remarkable images of an era when beer was a nickel a bottle and cows still grazed within sight of the Capitol

Götterdämmerung in Full Score early years with the SellsMelding literary, philosophical, and political as well as musical influences in his works, Richard Wagner (181383) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given to hyperbole, acknowledged Wagner's preeminent status in The Perfect Wagnerite: "He was the summit of the nineteenth century school of dramatic music." In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner