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As the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians notes: "He intensified the expressive vocabulary of the lied to a pitch never since surpassed

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Götterdämmerung in Full Score As the New Grove DictionaryMelding literary, philosophical, and political as well as musical influences in his works, Richard Wagner (181383) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given to hyperbole, acknowledged Wagner's preeminent status in The Perfect Wagnerite: "He was the summit of the nineteenth century school of dramatic music." In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner