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Meistersingers

  • plural
    of Meistersinger.
    Meistersinger
    noun
    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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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

The Meistersingers also were accomplishing their supreme work of Christianizing and modernizing the old German and Christian legends which were to prove such a precious heritage of interest for posterity.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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