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Definition of Gotterdammerung
1. Noun. Myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
Definition of Gotterdammerung
1. Noun. (context Germanic mythology) The myth of the destruction of the gods in a final battle with the forces of evil; the apocalypse. ¹
2. Noun. Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Gotterdammerung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"DIE gotterdammerung After the Siegfried forest-drama, ... Dramatically, as well
as musically, Die gotterdammerung contains material enough for half-a-dozen ..."
2. Wagner by Charles Albert Lidgey (1899)
"... undertaking—" Die gotterdammerung " completed—Description of the Bayreuth
Theatre—Rehearsals for the first Festival commenced—First performance of "Der ..."
3. The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas with Illustrations by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1921)
"... gotterdammerung (THE DUSK OF THE GODS) MUSIC-DRAMA in three acts and a prelude.
Words and music by Richard Wagner, who began composition ..."
4. The Victor Book of the Opera: Stories of One Hundred Operas with Five by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1913)
"DOUBLE-FACED gotterdammerung RECORDS (Fantasia from the Opera By Arthur Pryor's
Bandl,.,, , ,_ . , , _< THE RHINE MAIDENS RECOVER THE RHINEGOLD 1. ..."
5. The Standard Operas, Their Plots and Their Music by George Putnam Upton (1914)
"Die gotterdammerung The last division of the tragedy opens under the shade of a
huge ash-tree where the three Fates git spinning and weaving out human ..."
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