The Mastersingers now assemble, and Pogner announces that Eva's hand is to be the prize of the singing contest next day.
He wins his bride, but he will have nothing to say to the Mastersingers and their pedantry, until Hans Sachs has shown him that in them lies the future of German art.
The untutored loveliness of his song fills the hide-bound Mastersingers with dismay, and Beckmesser's slate is soon covered.
Though the institution of the Mastersingers was established at the close of the thirteenth century, it was not until the fifteenth and sixteenth that it really flourished, particularly through the genius of Hans Sachs.
During this century the Mastersingers went on composing, according to the rules of their guilds, but we look in vain for the raciness and simplicity of Hans Sachs.
The Marker, who already is a suitor, finds a rival in the person of a young nobleman who, inspired by heroic tales and the minnesingers' deeds, leaves his ruined ancestral castle to learn the art of the mastersingers in Nuremberg.
I conceived Hans Sachs to be the last appearance of the artistic spirit of the people" he says, "and placed him in opposition to the narrow-minded citizens from whom the Mastersingers were chosen.
Thereupon Hans Sachs humorously defends the mastersingers and closes with the rhyme: "The Holy Roman Empire may depart, Yet will remain our Holy German art.
I visited Nuremberg in 1886 in search of relics of the mastersingers and had no little difficulty in finding the church.
Most easily recognized are the two broad march tunes typical of the mastersingers and their pageantry.
Church and tablet are the only relics of the mastersingers left in Nuremberg which may be called personal.
In them are poems from all of the mastersingers who make up the meeting which condemns Walther in St. Catherine's church.
Out of these plays German comedy arose, and among those who rocked its cradle was another of the mastersingers who plays a part in Wagner's opera,--Hans Folz.
The three melodies which are presented in opposition to the spirit represented by the mastersingers and their typical music, are disclosed by a study of the comedy to be associated with the passion of the young lovers, Walther and Eva.
Veit Pogner, a rich silversmith, desiring to honor the craft of the mastersingers, to whose guild he belongs, offers his daughter Eva in marriage to the successful competitor at the annual meeting of the mastersingers on the feast of St. John.
What is strong, and true, and pure, and wholesome in the art of the mastersingers he permits to pass through his satirical fires unscathed.
It was doubtless largely due to the influence of Hans Sachs that the guild of mastersingers built the first German theatre in Nuremberg in 1550.
The knight complies, the mastersingers are delighted, and Pogner rewards the singer with Eva's hand.
The decline that found its perigee in the period of the Mastersingers went on gradually.
Tristan and Isolda was produced in 1865 and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg three years later.
Even more striking than this instance is the treatment of a figure heard first when Pogner announces to the assembled mastersingers his intention of giving his daughter Eva as the prize in next day's contest.
The Dutchman, the whole of the Ring and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg are all operas in which the scenic environment is the inspiration.
Hans Sachs was perhaps the only one of the mastersingers whose melodies show anything but the flattest mediocrity.
The mastersingers are mainly valuable for having given Wagner a pretext for his wonderful music.
The pictures in Hagen's work on the mastersingers were collected in the fifteenth century by Manasses of Zorich, and have served as the basis for all subsequent works on the subject.
Although the mastersingers retained their guild privileges in different parts of Germany almost up to the middle of the present century, the movement was strongest in Bavaria, with Nuremberg as its centre.
Thus we see that the mastersingers and the minnesingers were two very different classes of men.
Wagner makes this fact pathetic, comical, and altogether charming in his "Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
As a picture of the pseudo-artistic life and influence of the mastersingers the work, as genuine and great a comic opera as "Le Nozze di Figaro," is perfect.
This was the Mastersingers of Nuremberg with Hans Sachs at their head.
After Walther's failure before theMastersingers the impetuous young knight persuades Eva to elope with him.
He is, however, rejected, his song violating the rules to which the Mastersingers slavishly adhere.
Thus there is in the Motive of the Mastersingers a certain ponderous dignity which well emphasizes the idea of conservative power.
Soon the Mastersingers assemble to deliberate in regard to the public competition of the morrow.
Since the disappearance of the Minnesingers, those minstrels of love so closely resembling the French troubadours, the Mastersingers alone taught poetry and music.
Madame Wagner told me that the composition of the Mastersingers had been suspended during long months on account of a sick dog, wandering and abandoned, which Wagner, then at Zurich, had picked up and endeavored to cure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mastersingers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
