"Forgive me an old after-dinner song'which I once composed amongstdaughters of the desert: -For with them was there equallygood, clear, Oriental air; there was Ifurthest from cloudy, damp,melancholy Old-Europe!"Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1886
Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdammerung