The Rhine-Gold (Rheingold). A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by Oliver Huckel.

Wagner's Rheingold as retold by Oliver Huckel The Rhine-Gold A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by Oliver Huckel copyright 1907 Includes the illustrations "The Lure of the Rhine-Maidens" (1904) and "The Vision of Valhalla" (1899) by Franz Hanfstaengl Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner ] Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, or in English, 'The Ring of the Nibelung'. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Rheingold ] Oliver Huckel (1864-1940), Congregationalist Clergyman and Author, published numerous books and articles. Among his favorite subjects were books about Wagner operas, he wrote nine books on Wagner's operas, and articles focusing on the religious identity of the founder of his alma mater, Benjamin Franklin. One of Huckel's articles on Franklin focused Franklin's relationship with Great Awakening preacher George Whitefield. Huckel posed the two as friends to demonstrate that Franklin was, in reality, a spiritual and religious man contrary to how Franklin appears in his autobiography. [source: https://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/huckel_oliver.html ] Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804 – 1877) was a Bavarian painter, lithographer and photographer. [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hanfstaengl ]