!!!Middle Ages/Buerger und Bauern
!!Hans Sachs: ''Die drey werckmender''

[{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Hans_Sachs_Die_drey_werckmender/040302a.jpg'
alt='Bürger und Bauern' height='250' caption='Ausschnitt aus den Meistersingerfresken des Meistersingersaales in Schwaz in Tirol\\© Helmut Schubert, Graz' width='375'}]

Hans Sachs (1494 - Nuremberg - 1576), a shoemaker, was probably the
best-known and most important Meisteringer.  The term Meistersinger
refers to bourgeois craftsmen in cities during the Late Middle Ages,
who tried to maintain the quality and ideals of the ''alte '''' Lyrik''
and at the same time to compose and write according to strict
self-imposed rules. Part of the realization of their goals was the
formation of guilds. The test of a master was inventing his own melody
while abiding by the rules. This haowever meant that the natural
accentuation was often ignored because a '' Weis''' (melody) was sung
to a variety of texts by different poets. Hans Sachs wrote the song, ''
Die drey werckmender '' to fit his own melody ''silberweis'' which
was supposedly composed in Braunau am Inn (Upper Austria). The
illustration shows a part of the Meistersinger frescoes from the
so-called Meistersinger Hall (formerly the courtroom) in Schwaz in the
Tyrol (1536). Unfortunately this hall was almost completely destroyed
during the Second World War. (E. Stadler)

!Sound Clip
[{Audio src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Hans_Sachs_Die_drey_werckmender/040302am.mp3'
caption='Audio sample of Hans Sachs: "Die drey werckmender"\\© Stradivarius, Milano Dischi, Via A. Costa 7, 20131 Milano, CD-Nr. STR 33361: Hans Sachs und seine Zeit, Interpret: Eberhard Kummer.'}]


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