 It is often said that twelve years elapsed between the second and third acts of "Siegfried", but this is an exaggeration.While it is true that eleven years and twenty-nine weeks passed between the completion of the developed draft of Act II and the beginning of the preliminary draft of Act III, Wagner devoted more than a year of this so-called hiatus to the composition of "Siegfried", completing the fair copy of Act I, drawing up both the full score and fair copy of Act II, and making sketches for Act III.Impatient to complete his epic cycle, Wagner began work on the preliminary draft of "Götterdämmerung" on 2 October 1869, while he was still at work on the third act of "Siegfried".