The master-singers of Nuremberg . ) A • DRAMATIC • POEM • BY • RICHARD WAGNER• FREELY• TRANSLATED -IN POETIC • NARRATIVE • FORM • BY 4Dlfter ^ucftel C&omag p. Ctotoell Company PUBLISHERS • NEW YORK Copyright, 1912, by Thomas Y. Crowell CompanyPublished September, 1912 BR1GHAM Y UNIVERSITYRARYPROYO, UTAH Composition and electrotype plates byD. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston TO TWO NOBLE WOMEN OF GERMAN BLOOD MARIA SUSANNAH UHLE OF HEILBRONN IN THE OLD DUKEDOM OF WURTTEMBERG AND JULIA WALDEGRAVE NIECE OF THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE OF ENGLAND WHO BY THEIR MEMORIES AND NOBLE TRADITIONS HAVE I
The master-singers of Nuremberg . ) A • DRAMATIC • POEM • BY • RICHARD WAGNER• FREELY• TRANSLATED -IN POETIC • NARRATIVE • FORM • BY 4Dlfter ^ucftel C&omag p. Ctotoell Company PUBLISHERS • NEW YORK Copyright, 1912, by Thomas Y. Crowell CompanyPublished September, 1912 BR1GHAM Y UNIVERSITYRARYPROYO, UTAH Composition and electrotype plates byD. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston TO TWO NOBLE WOMEN OF GERMAN BLOOD MARIA SUSANNAH UHLE OF HEILBRONN IN THE OLD DUKEDOM OF WURTTEMBERG AND JULIA WALDEGRAVE NIECE OF THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE OF ENGLAND WHO BY THEIR MEMORIES AND NOBLE TRADITIONS HAVE INSPIRED IN THEIR DESCENDANT A LOVE OF THE QUAINT AND HAPPY-HEARTED MASTER-SINGERS O. H. CONTENTS FOREWORD Page ix PART I The Singing Guild i PART II The Cobbler-Poet 43 PART III The Master-Song 85 ILLUSTRATIONS The Cobbler-Poet among his Books FrontispieceWalter and Eva at St. Catherines Facing 6A Chat with Hans Sachs 54 The Foot of the Fairest in Nuremberg 106The Crowning of the Master-singer 126. FOREWORD HE Master-singers of Nuremberg isWagners humorous opera. It is a re-freshing contrast to the high tragedyof his sublime national epic of the Ni-belungen Ring, and of the scarcely less tragicLohengrin, Tannhauser, and Parsifal. It is apicturesque episode, giving the spirit of theMiddle Ages in admirable drama occupied Wagners thoughts moreor less for twenty-five years, and was finallycompleted in 1867 after several of his greaterdramas had been finished and made public. Itwas given its first hearing in 1868, at Munich,under the direction of Hans von Master-singers, it must be remembered,were not invented by Wagner. They were a realguild of old Nuremberg singers, men of fleshand blood, a product of that intensely artisticcentre in mediaeval Germany. His sketching ofthese ancient worthies is absolutely accurateand realistic. Wagner intended it as a satire onthe narrowness of a mechanical art-spirit; butit became a most gentle satire and a
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