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Meistersinger

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Meistersinger

One of a group of German lyric poets, singers, and musicians of the 14th-16th centuries, who formed guilds for the revival of minstrelsy. Hans Sachs was a Meistersinger, and Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1868) depicts the tradition.


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