Meistersingers
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pluralof Meistersinger.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
MeistersingernounAlso 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