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Wagner: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla – Piano Solo

Piano arrangement of the powerful orchestral conclusion to Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold" (1869), the first of his four Ring operas. Here several of the most important leitmotifs are musically interwoven in a sweeping triumphal march: the Valhalla motif in it's full glory, followed by the Ring motif in a somber interlude and finally a climactic coda over the motif for the mythical Rainbow Bridge. Wagner is considered one of the most influential precursors of Hollywood Golden and Silver Age film music, which I think becomes very evident in this excerpt. For reasons not entirely unironic I like to play this every year at the welcoming ceremony for the new 5th graders at our school... ;)