BEETHOVEN FREDERICK THE GREAT MOZART MARIA THERESA BACH BARBAROSSA MAID OF ORLEANS WILLIAM OF ORANGE WILLIAM TELL GUDRUN THE LITTLE DAUPHIN THE NIBELUNGS The Nibelungen Lied (_Nibelungen_, name of an ancient royal race which possessed a great treasure; _lied_, song or ballad), one of the world’s greatest epics, made its appearance in the twelfth or thirteenth century, in South Germany. Its authorship is unknown. The writer, however, did not produce an original work, but made use of still earlier legends which had been handed down orally. The Nibelungen Lied is to be regarded, therefore, as a collection of ballads skilfully united so as to form a connected story. Its hero is Siegfried, who p…
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