. Richard Wagner : his life and works . re to prove that the doc-trines formulated in deduction fromhis preceding works, applied to opera- comique as well as to grand opera, AT THE HEIGHT 0F G00Dand that they were, consequently, ™ u M ^0RTUNE- . J i- j Ihe bold dream is realized: the 1m- capable of resisting all attacks from f^t^Si&JS^Si I /• . 1 . misfortunes are forgotten. The good the quarter 01 routine and parti pris. times have come. The middle ages . , and the absolute sovereigns are still of The Meistersinger is a musical 80meu*L ■ 1. *> > * -. o (Munich Punsch, April 30, 1S65. co
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . re to prove that the doc-trines formulated in deduction fromhis preceding works, applied to opera- comique as well as to grand opera, AT THE HEIGHT 0F G00Dand that they were, consequently, ™ u M ^0RTUNE- . J i- j Ihe bold dream is realized: the 1m- capable of resisting all attacks from f^t^Si&JS^Si I /• . 1 . misfortunes are forgotten. The good the quarter 01 routine and parti pris. times have come. The middle ages . , and the absolute sovereigns are still of The Meistersinger is a musical 80meu*L ■ 1. *> > * -. o (Munich Punsch, April 30, 1S65. comedy, with some snatches of bur-lesque, and frequent ascents into the realms of real poem, assuredly, took definite form in Richard Wag-ners mind, only after he had found the masterly figureof Hans Sachs, the familiar poet, to act as his principalpersonage; Hans Sachs, the shoemaker poet, the chevalierWalther of Stolzing, representing superior poetry; HansSachs, the friend of Luther and of Albert Diirer, in whom. 224 RICHARD WAGNER Goethe and Wieland had already saluted an ancestor, andwhose literary celebrity has for its supreme consecration,the work of Richard Wagner. In transporting himself tothe middle of the sixteenth century, to the heart of thecorporation of meistersingers; in exposing to ridicule boththeir senseless pretensions, and their servitude to the narrowand antiquated rules of a barbaric code called tabidature, hehas surely aimed to join satire to comedy, and it is littleto be wondered at, when one reflects upon the struggleswhich he had to undergo in his own country; when onereflects that this opera was written a short time after thelamentable failure of Tannhduser at Paris. Over againstthese conservative gentlemen, attached to the most absurdritual, and whose solemn meetings offer a very comicalpicture of the old established school, exclusive, and opposedto all free inspiration, he personifies in Walther a poet ofgentle birth, full of youth a
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