MEISTERSINGER

mīˈstərsĭngˌər, Ger. mīˈshtərzĭngˌər [Ger.,=mastersinger], a member of one of the musical and poetic guilds that flourished in German cities during the 15th and 16th cent. The guilds or schools comprised chiefly artisans who claimed artistic descent from the courtly minnesingers. Each member was required to compose and sing according to rigid technical formulas laid down in the Tabulatur. Candidates for the coveted rank of Meister were judged in public contest. Some of the song texts of Hans Sachs and others became famous, but it was Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) that popularized knowledge of the movement.

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Die Meistersinger
Book by Wakeling Dry; G.W. Jacobs & Co., 1902
Subjects: Wagner, Richard--1813-1883--Meistersinger von Neurnberg
...more departed, although the model performances were given in due course, and arrangements made for the production of Die Meistersinger in 1868. By this time the differences with his kingly patron were adjusted, the animosity displayed by the public had...
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Music in the Renaissance
Book by Gustave Reese; Norton, 1959
Subjects: Music--15th Century--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...and 16th centuries is the music of the Meistersinger. Probably the first important Meistersinger was Michel Behaim of Heidel. berg 1416...Sachs. In the period from 1450 to 1600 Meistersinger guilds flourished in all the important...
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Record Ratings: The Music Library Association's Index of Record Reviews
Book by Kurtz Myers, Richard S. Hill; Crown Publishers, 1956
Subjects: Music--Discography, Sound Recordings--Reviews--Indexes
...Act 3 of Lohengrin; Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Overture to Tannhauser...Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Excerpts Prelude to...Columbia ML4865. $5.95. Lohengrin, Meistersinger Die Walkure excerpts issued also as...
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The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
Book by Barry Millington; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Wagner, Richard--1813-1883--Operas
...Tristan und Isolde Parsifal Die Meistersinger yon Niirnberg Parsifal Tristan und Isolde Lohengrin Die Meistersinger yon Niirnberg Das Liebesverbot Tristan...Isolde Das Rheingold, Siegfried Die Meistersinger yon Niirnberg Die Meistersinger...
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approches to Wagner's Music-Dramas
Book by Mary A. Cicora; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: German Drama--History And Criticism, Wagner, Richard--1813-1883--Criticism And Interpretation
...Breig comments on how Wagner sketched Meistersinger in 1845, during his years in Zurich...interrupted his Ring project to compose Meistersinger. Breig finds it surprising, for these...Firstly, he suggests the analogy of Meistersinger to Tannhauser as a "singer opera...
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journal articles on: Meistersinger  - 52 results

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Katherina Wagner's Die Meistersinger at Bayreuth
Journal article by Glenn Loney; Western European Stages, Vol. 19, 2007
Subjects: Bayreuth Germany, Opera, Performing artists, Set design, Theater directors & producers, Wagner, Katharina, Wagner, Richard (1813-83)
...his marvelously evocative Meistersinger for a number of seasons...busily xeroxing copies of the Meistersingers rules. The art students...singers trial to join the Meistersingers and so win Evas hand in...production costs for this new Meistersinger must have been staggering...
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The Meistersinger of Macon
Journal article by David Kirby; Triquarterly, 2008
Subjects: Little Richard (Richard Penniman), Music history, Musical recordings, Popular music, Racism, Singers, United States
The Meistersinger of Macon by David Kirby Ooh! My...the airwaves, the music of Macons meistersinger rules the world. Before he became...told me how the tot who would be the meistersinger beat out rhythms on every surface...
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Der Meistersinger: in Response to David Krell
Journal article by Charles E. Scott; Philosophy Today, Vol. 51, 2007
Subjects: Ears & hearing, Mutation, Nonfiction, Religion
Der Meistersinger: in Response to David Krell by Charles E. Scott At the time David...untragically away. Mastery I gave this response the title of Der Meistersinger in recognition of Davids quality as a virtuoso of language and thought...
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The Music of Wagner in Toronto before 1914
Journal article by Carl Morey; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Classical music, Composers, Music history, Musical performances, Toronto Ontario Canada, Wagner, Richard (1813-83)
...the repertoire, beginning with Die Meistersinger van Nurnberg in 1885 and continuing...Orchestra in 1892. Music from Die Meistersinger was introduced at a concert in 1890...Chorale "Wachauf and the finale to Die Meistersinger. In November of the same year, 1890...
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A Forgotten Early Champion of Wagner: Venetian Bandmaster Jacopo Calascione
Journal article by John W. Barker; Journal of Band Research, Vol. 43, 2007
...Italian) until January, 1887, with Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg following (in Italian...in selections from Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal The next day La Gazzetta...selections from Tristan, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger. The writer used the occasion to heap...
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The Meistersingers' Hidden Heritage
Magazine article by Irving Godt; Musical Times, Vol. 144, Winter 2003
Subjects: Civilization, Culture, Germany, History, Music
...mostly in that same Barform that the Meistersinger had favoured. But that was not their...contribution to our musical world. The Meistersinger movement was not a shortlived phenomenon...become commonplace to belittle the Meistersinger as a stodgy imitators of the noble...
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Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Welsh National Opera
Magazine article by Brian Hick; Musical Opinion, Vol. 133, September 2010
Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Welsh National Opera...been waiting a long time for the WNO Meistersinger. I remember interviewing Carlo Rizzi...was a plan even then to mount a new Meistersinger but productions of this size have...
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Wagner's Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg in Stuttgart
Magazine article by Eduardo Benarroch; Musical Opinion, Vol. 127, March 2004
Wagners Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg in Stuttgart by Eduardo Benarroch Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in Stuttgart How many literary...production of Wagners most dangerous work. Die Meistersinger von Numberg, Hans Neuenfels refuses to...
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Wagner's Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
Magazine article by Clive Barnes; Musical Opinion, Vol. 130, July 2007
Wagners Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg by Clive Barnes There...gorgeous pomp and circumstance to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. At least there is...vexed context of Nuremberg, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg is the only one of...
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Bayreuth's New Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
Magazine article by Jeffrey Leipsic; Musical Opinion, Vol. 131, November 2007
Bayreuths New Meistersinger Von Nurnberg by Jeffrey Leipsic...only new Bayreuth production, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, could be seen as...is very much to her credit. Her Meistersinger^ which I saw at its second performance...
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Terfel Shines in a Masterly Meistersinger; REVIEW: Die Meistersinger Von N'rnberg,Wagner, WNO at the WMC
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 21, 2010
Terfel Shines in a Masterly Meistersinger; REVIEW: Die Meistersinger Von Nrnberg,Wagner, WNO at the WMC. Byline...orchestra in WNOs first production of Wagners Die Meistersinger quickly melted away. While a fabulous showcase...
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Win VIP Tickets to Show Inspired by Dylan Thomas; TOMORROW: Win Tickets toWelsh National Opera's Smash Hit Die Fledermaus in Cardiff and Llandudno and Exclusive Signed Photographs of Bryn Terfel in WNO's Acclaimed Die Meistersinger
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 25, 2011
...Smash Hit Die Fledermaus in Cardiff and Llandudno and Exclusive Signed Photographs of Bryn Terfel in WNOs Acclaimed Die Meistersinger. NATIONAL Dance Company Wales is making a welcome return to the Wales Millennium Centre stage in March. The double-bill...
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WNO Wins International Award for Wagner Opera
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 26, 2011
Subjects: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Opera)--Achievements and awards, Operas
...South Bank Sky Arts Awards for Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg. Directed by Richard...Achievement In Opera accolade. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg beat off competition from...the companys landmark production of Meistersinger and a real tribute to the hard work...
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Hats off to the Milliners; for the Small Team of Milliners Who've Worked on a New Production for Welsh National Opera, Their Work Is Never Done. Kirstie McCrum Finds out More
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), June 22, 2010
...laughs. The team for Die Meistersinger is completed by Kelly who...UK after the work on Die Meistersinger is done. For the German...Successfully creating one of Die Meistersingers amazing hats starts simply...headwear needed for Die Meistersinger has truly stretched the...
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'Excessive' Marketing Bill of WNO under Fire from Rivals for Funding; QUESTIONS RAISED AS CUTS IN ARTS SUPPORT DECIDED
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 25, 2010
...performance of Wagner s six-hour Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg starring Bryn Terfel...National Opera after being schmoozed at Meistersinger, where they spent a vast amount wining...go to see WNOs lavish production of Meistersinger in another country - at Birmingham...
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encyclopedia articles on: Meistersinger  - 7 results

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Meistersinger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEISTERSINGER mi st rsing r, Ger. mi sht rzing r Ger.,=mastersinger, a member...Sachs and others became famous, but it was Richard Wagners opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1868) that popularized knowledge of the movement...
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Sachs, Hans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SACHS, HANS hans zaks, 1494 1576, German poet, leading meistersinger of the Nuremberg school. A shoemaker and guild master...character in several operas, notably in Richard Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. ____________________ Copyright...
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Toscanini, Arturo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at La Scala, Milan, where he presented many new operas and the Italian premieres of many others, including Wagners Die Meistersinger (1898) and Siegfried (1899). From 1908 to 1914 he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, where he gave...
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Kiefer, Anselm
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...themes of a savage and contemptible Nazi past (e.g., Shulamite, 1983) and a sere German landscape (e.g., The Meistersinger, 1982), are characterized by broad drawing, scorched and bloody colors, use of unusual materials (straw, metal...
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Opera
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and to tales of chivalry and knighthood for Lohengrin (1850), Tristan und Isolde (1865), and Parsifal (1882). Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1868), Wagners only comic opera, used the real-life cobbler and poet Hans Sachs as the central character...
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