Meistersinger
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Meistersinger,
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Meistersingers
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Also a member of one of the guilds, chiefly of workingmen, established during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in the principal cities of Germany, for the cultivation of poetry and music.
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(italics) Die an opera (1867) by Richard Wagner.
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Etymology
Origin of Meistersinger
1835–45; < German: master singer
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His librettos were like subtweets; that’s why, Wagner believed, the critic Eduard Hanslick cooled on him after a reading of the text for “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” a cri de coeur against artistic gatekeeping.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
John Ruskin described the comic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” as “sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2020
Excerpts from the opera “Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg” were played at the Nuremberg rallies.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
Holten declined, but instead asked for seven months to give him time to direct a new production of Wagner's Meistersinger early next year.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2015
The overture is quite beautiful; the second subject so attracted Wagner that he "pinched" it and put it into the Meistersinger.
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
Handel’s Messiah Orange County-based Meistersingers perform with a period-instrument ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
Handel’s Messiah Orange County-based vocal ensemble Meistersingers performs with a period-instrument ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2019
Guilds were hardly perfect – the Meistersingers were almost comically Teutonic in their earnest love of musical rules, and guild traditionalism sometimes put them behind artistic developments.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2013
His own later efforts included a second Lohengrin, another Ring cycle, two Parsifals, two Meistersingers, and a Tannhäuser.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2010
Walter could be on occasion, however, as serious as any of the Meistersingers and is especially known for his religious poems.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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