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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 (opera)|Siegfried]]''. There was to be no fair copy of this the final opera in the cycle, so the three acts passed through just three stages: preliminary draft (''Gesamtentwurf''), orchestral draft (''Orchesterskizze''), and full score (''Partiturerstschrift''). Wagner had altered his modus operandi once again while at work on the last two acts of [[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg|Die Meistersinger]]: now it was his practice to finish both complete drafts of each act in turn before beginning the full score of the entire opera.
The composition of [[Götterdämmerung]] proceeded without much difficulty, as Wagner was now thoroughly familiar with his musical material and his [[Der Ring des Nibelungen
By the summer of 1871 both drafts of the Prologue and Act I were finished and Wagner had begun the preliminary draft of Act II. The orchestral draft was not begun, however, until 18 November of the same year. Act II was completed by the end of the year.
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