Wagner Leitmotifs | 56 Wotan's Frustration : Der Ring Des Nibelungen @wagnerleitmotifs7654 | Uploaded August 2013 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
This leitmotif is first heard in act 2 scene 1 of Die Walkure.
This motif is heard when events do not follow Wotan's will. By the end of the cycle Wotan is saying that he is the most powerful and least free of all creatures because he is forced again and again to do things he doesn't want to do. First Fricka makes him kill his beloved son Siegmund and then he is forced to say good bye to his favourite daughter Brunnhilde, imprisoning her on a rock in an endless sleep, and so it goes on.
This motif is an impotent version of the spear motif, with all it's power removed by the rising figure in the middle. It goes up at the end, representing Wotan's hope of getting the Ring.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Spear: youtu.be/yvXDyBeaP-4
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Need of the Gods: youtu.be/hpsUEONF6Ys
Reproach: youtu.be/414afDmvsFE
Wotan's Frustration (Hagen): youtu.be/iJ5r2El15r0
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This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
This leitmotif is first heard in act 2 scene 1 of Die Walkure.
This motif is heard when events do not follow Wotan's will. By the end of the cycle Wotan is saying that he is the most powerful and least free of all creatures because he is forced again and again to do things he doesn't want to do. First Fricka makes him kill his beloved son Siegmund and then he is forced to say good bye to his favourite daughter Brunnhilde, imprisoning her on a rock in an endless sleep, and so it goes on.
This motif is an impotent version of the spear motif, with all it's power removed by the rising figure in the middle. It goes up at the end, representing Wotan's hope of getting the Ring.
Progenitor leitmotifs:
Spear: youtu.be/yvXDyBeaP-4
Related Leitmotifs:
None
Subsidiary Leitmotifs:
Need of the Gods: youtu.be/hpsUEONF6Ys
Reproach: youtu.be/414afDmvsFE
Wotan's Frustration (Hagen): youtu.be/iJ5r2El15r0
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
This video is designed for the purpose of teaching the viewer about the leitmotifs in Wagner's Operas, where they appear and how the work. This clearly comes under the umbrella of fair use. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
