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Richard Wagner - Siegfried (1876)
Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert!..Hoho! Hoho! Hahei! Schmiede,mein Hammer
Siegfried - Erik Schmedes

Note: This is not the complete version of Siegfried's Forging Song. This was a condensed version which I made from 2 arias recorded by the Heldentenor Erik Schmedes

Erik Schmedes (1868 - 1931) was born in Gentofie, near Copenhagen and grew up in a family of musicians and singers. He studied in Berlin and Vienna as a baritone and sang in Wiesbaden, Nuremberg and eventually Hamburg. On Pollini's advice, he became a tenor, at first singing lyric parts. Mahler engaged him as a Heldentenor in 1898 and his first appearance at the Viennese stage was as a guest singer in Siegfried on 11 Feb. His contract came into force on 1 June and he stayed with the Hofoper until 1924.

(All information was taken from the book Gustav Mahler - Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897- 1904) by Henry-Louis de la Grange)