They were lovers of art, especially of poetry and music, and at the Wartburg many peaceful contests between the famous minnesingers took place.
Finally, the Landgrave and minnesingers mount their steeds and ride away toward the castle.
The minnesingers sing tamely of the beauty of virtuous love, but Tannhaeuser, suddenly remembering the seductive and magical beauties of the Venusberg, cannot control himself, and bursts out into a reckless hymn in praise of Venus.
But at that moment the Landgrave and a number of minnesingers on their return from the chase come upon him and, recognizing him, endeavour to persuade him to return to the Wartburg with them.
He livedin Tyrol, then the home of famous minnesingers from whom he learned his art.
Then in vain, with cries discordant, Clamorous round the Gothic spire, Screamed the feathered Minnesingers For the children of the choir.
Besides giving the world a host of shorter songs, the period of the Minnesingers brought forth some really great poets who were successful in the larger forms.
From this extreme worship arose the schools of the Minnesingers and the Troubadours, who paid her manifold homage in the shape of poetry and song.
Examples of still another style in the work of the Minnesingers are almost surely a direct imitation of the work of the Trouvères of Northern France.
In Germany, the mantle of the Minnesingers fell upon the guilds of musical amateurs in the growing commercial cities.
The language ordinarily used by the Minnesingers was that of Suabia, which was that employed at the imperial and many lesser courts of Germany.
That many of the early songs of the Minnesingers have been preserved is due to the forethought of Rüdiger of Manesse, a public officer of Zurich in the fourteenth century.
According to the general statements of history, the Minnesingers began their career in the time of Frederick Barbarossa, of Germany.
The German minnesingers differed from the French troubadours in that they themselves accompanied their songs on the viol, instead of employing jongleurs.
Therefore we will pass to Germany, where the spirit of the troubadours was assimilated in a peculiarly Germanic fashion by the minnesingers and the mastersingers.
In contradistinction to the poetry of the troubadours, that of the minnesingers was characterized by an undercurrent of sadness which seems to be peculiar to the Germanic race.
The minnesingersand their immediate predecessors and successors, on the other hand, furnished thought for a great part of our modern art.
Frauenlob (plate 44), as Heinrich von Meissen was called, represents the minnesingers at the height of their development.
The music of these minnesingers existing in manuscript has been but little heeded, and only lately has an attempt been made to classify and translate it into modern notation.
Thus we see that the mastersingers and the minnesingers were two very different classes of men.
It makes plain the difference between the minnesingers and the troubadours.
The minnesingers enlisted in love's cause, yet none the less in war and the defense of truth, and for the last Süsskind von Trimberg did valiant service.
His poems have found an abiding home in the memory of posterity, and in the circle of the German minnesingers the Jew Süsskind forms a distinct link.
The fantastic devotion to woman and the love for her at the time of the Minnesingers thus changed the entire life of the Teutonic race.
There are among the lyrics of the Minnesingers many which are devoted entirely to religious topics, especially the glory of the Virgin, a specimen of which may here be given: "Maria!
This detail painting of womanly beauty by the Minnesingers is a great advance over the descriptions given by the epic poets, which deal mostly in poetic generalities.
Yet whether lofty or earthly, platonic or ardent, the centre of the lyrics of the Minnesingersis always the relation of the sexes.
This difference is further apparent in the attitude of minnesingers and troubadours towards the conception of "love.
Finally, the German minnesingers knew and appreciated troubadour lyrics, and imitations or even translations of Provençal poems may be found in Heinrich von Morungen, Friedrich von Hausen, and many others.
The earlier, the Austro-Bavarian school, flourished in the valley of the Danube: the later minnesingers form the Rhine school.
Ask him if songs of the Troubadours, Or of Minnesingers in old black-letter, Sound in his ears more sweet than yours, And if yours are not sweeter and wilder and better.
As the day was now drawing to a close, the good old king invited them all into the banquet hall, where were already gathered numbers of troubadours, and minnesingers who were the troubadours of Germany.
All the other troubadours and minnesingers stood up, and King René smiled graciously as the two noblemen entered, followed by their pages, Pierrot and Henri, each of whom carried a viol bedecked with long silken ribbons.
There is absolutely nothing in that story to suggest any connection with the contest of minnesingers in the Castle of Wartburg in 1204 A.
They spoke of twelve minnesingers as their models and masters,[37] and themselves they called mastersingers.
These minnesingers were the German companions and imitators of the French troubadours, from whom they took their origin.
Scott was also numbered in this class; and it is from these old German legends of the Minnesingers that Richard Wagner has drawn the material for Lohengrin, Parsifal, and others of his magnificent operas.
Even before that time they had begun to be taken into the service of the knightly troubadours andminnesingers as accompanists, their French title being jongleurs.
Nearly all of the Minnesingers composed what we must call religious erotics, in no way different, save for names of Christ and the Virgin, from their most impassioned secular ones.
His chief recreation was hunting, and he also found pleasure in the society of the Minnesingers and in writing poems, which appear in F.
He was fond of the society of men of letters, and Walther von der Vogelweide and other Minnesingers were welcomed to his castle of the Wartburg.
In the infancy of modern music the solo existed only in the folk song, in the rhapsodies of religious ecstatics and in the uncertain lyrics of the minnesingers and troubadours.
Wilhelm Grimm says: The Minnesingers talk often enough of mild May, the nightingale's song, the dew shining on the flowers of the heath, but always in relation only to their own feelings reflected in them.
Even the Carmina Burana were not much ahead of the Minnesingers in this respect, although they deserve a closer examination.
Among the Minnesingers there were traces of feeling for Nature; but only for certain stereotyped phases.
He gave a code of municipal law to Vienna, and rights to other towns, welcomed the Minnesingers to his brilliant court, and left to his subjects an enduring memory of valour and wisdom.
Under him Vienna became the centre of culture in Germany and the great school of Minnesingers (q.
Moreover, he gave early evidence of an independent literary taste, that dared to yawn at the methods practised by the great minnesingers of his youth.
As for flogging, this prince of the minnesingers took the side of the Matthew Feildes against the Boyers: "No one can switch a child into education; to those whom you can bring up well, a word is as good as a blow.
Sometimes in France and Provence the same poet composed his verses and sang them--was both trouvere or troubadour and jongleur; while in Germany the minnesingers were generally both poets and minstrels.
Their extraordinarily large number may be gathered from the fact that from the twelfth century alone the names of one hundred and sixty Minnesingers have come down to us.
I need only detain wandering pilgrims, or invite minnesingers to the castle, to shorten the hours.
But a day came when theminnesingers of Germany felt that it behoved them to fix once and for all time the shape of the Lay of the Nibelungs.
In medieval times, when the Nibelungenlied story was popular, minnesingers and harpers, in an attempt to please their audiences, would cast about for fresh incidents to introduce into the story.
The art of the minnesingers culminated in the fascinating songs of Walter von der Vogelweide, and then, as their numbers increased, it gradually degenerated toward conventional inanity.
And in a large proportion of cases the poems of trouveres, troubadours, and minnesingers are the expression of fortunate love, the fond recollection or eager expectation of meetings with the beloved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minnesingers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
