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Updated: May 8, 2025

He wrote to Franz Liszt, with whom he now began to correspond, that within six months he would send him the book of the new work complete. As he worked at the drama, however, it began to spread out before him in a way that he could not condense into one opera, or even two; and thus-it finally grew into the four operas of the "Ring of the Nibelungen."

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