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Its irregularly serrated profile is lost, and the sky-scrapers fall into position one behind the other, like an artistically grouped cohort of giants. "Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise," while in the background the glorious curve of the Brooklyn Bridge seems to span half the horizon. I could not but think of Valhalla and the Bridge of the Gods in the Rheingold.
In the years which elapsed between the composition of 'Lohengrin' and 'Das Rheingold, Wagner's theories upon the proper treatment of lyrical drama developed in a surprising manner.
As I was sitting once more in the evening on my roof, I was surprised at hearing one of the songs of the Three Rhine Maidens, from the finale of Rheingold, which floated to my ears from the near distance across the gardens.
In Rheingold, for example, some twelve or fifteen motives if we count only those of well-marked contours, and which are used in definite dramatic association can be distinguished; whereas in the whole of Tristan there are of such Leitmotive in the narrowest sense not more than three or four. The treatment is also very different.
I had the price why shouldn't I go?" he demanded brusquely; and with another sardonic laugh the real motive came out, "I wanted to see what you folks who go to the opery see how you enjoy yourselves. Well, the opery ain't so bad it ain't one bit bad," and he attempted to hum the Rheingold music.
So determined was Wagner to make his point clear, that even in "The Rheingold," the superfluous drama, he made it several times superfluously.
I arrived towards evening, and we attacked Rheingold at once, and as it did not seem very late, and I was supposed to be capable of any amount of exertion, I went on with the Walkure until midnight. The next morning after breakfast it was Siegfried's turn, and in the evening I finished off with Gotterdammerung.
And what a touch!" Matthews heard from Ganz's private quarters a welling of music so different from the pipes and cow-horns of Dizful that it gave him a sudden stab of homesickness. "I say," he said, brightening, "could it be any of the fellows from Meidan-i-Naft?" The ambiguous blue eye brightened too. "Perhaps! It is the river music from Rheingold. But listen," Ganz added with a smile.
It's different from what you get in study, more practical and conclusive. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience." "Heaven help us," gasped Ottenburg. "Weren't you hungry, though! It's beautiful to see you eat." "Glad you like it. Of course I'm hungry. Are you staying over for 'Rheingold' Friday afternoon?"
The gods rule for a limited time, subject to its decrees. This ever-present idea of inexorable doom is the guiding idea of Wagner's great tragedy. Against the inevitable the gods plot and scheme in vain. The opening scene of 'Das Rheingold' is in the depths of the Rhine.
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