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mastersinger
noun[ C ]
music specializeduk /ˈmɑː.stəˌsɪŋ.ər/ us /ˈmæs.tɚˌsɪŋ.ɚ/(also MeistersingerpluralMeistersinger or Meistersingers)
in Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries, a member of a guild (= organization of workers) who wrote and performed music and poetry :
He was revered as the town's wisest resident and finest mastersinger.
Wagner based his opera Die Meistersinger on the mastersingers of the medieval guilds.
The Meistersinger Hans Sachs was a poet, playwright, and shoemaker in the city of Nuremberg.
Wagner's opera involves a singing contest by the mastersingers, a 16th-century guild of singers.
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