…just as Burney worked both on the soul of the shoe and the soul of man, somewhat a similar situation existed with Hans Sachs. It is not generally known, for example, that Sachs wrote nearly 5,000 poems and over 200 plays. Nor is it generally recognized…

…shoe and the soul of man, somewhat a similar situation existed with Hans Sachs. It is not generally known, for example, that Sachs wrote nearly 5,000 poems and over 200 plays. Nor is it generally recognized that he contributed a number of very serious…

…with the spirit of the guilds. We also know from actual music introduced by Wagner the close affinity of thinking between Sachs and Luther and that this shoe makeup belonged to the great motion of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Now Luther was…

…order to have their regular and proper meetings. Here we are introduced to the venerable, beloved, all-wise Merlin of the group, Hans Sachs. Here we also come to know other members of this rather august body, dignified, majestic, with the simplicity of the…

…so-called prize song, which young Walter said to have received in a dream. There is some temporary misunderstanding between Eva and Hans Sachs, but this is cleared up. And the scene more or less moves around the house of the kindly cobbler or shoemaker.…

…number and sings his prize song. And at the end of the prize song, the music, although it is not quite traditional, Hans Sachs saves the situation by pointing out certain values and pointing out throughout that perhaps this music must be measured by its…

…because of the great and pressing need for human expression. The expression that no individual can have unless he recognizes, as Hans Sachs tells us in one of his prose works, that no man, no human being is mature enough unless he expresses through…

…guilds and they incidentally were part of a great system of guilds. In the opera The Meistersingers of Nuremberg Richard Wagner presents Hans Sachs as a worker in the guilds. It's sometimes said that this opera is a comic opera but it isn't. It's a very…