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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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
At 19, she began a series of annual visits to the International Meistersinger Academy in Neumarkt, Germany, where she studied with Ms. Wiens, its artistic director.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
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
He subsequently, however, took up singing, having developed a fine baritone voice; and in 1868 he sang the part of Hans Sachs in Meistersinger at Munich.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
One of the most celebrated was Hans Sachs, since represented in Wagner's "Meistersingers."
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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