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Excerpt from The Master-Singers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner: Attempt at a Musical Explanation In this saying of Richard Wagner the artistic fundamental idea of his Master-singers is essentially concealed. The contrast between the ideal and the cramping actuality is nowhere more emphatically expressed than in the life and nature of the German. But the above-named music-drama describes, in a charming picture of manners of the period of the Reformation, the struggle between these opposites and the reconciliation of them in the harmonious development of life by means of art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.