biography
pronunciation:
[zaks]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1494–1576)
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| biography:
| Poet, playwright, and composer, born in Nuremberg, SC Germany. He was trained as a shoemaker, and travelled through Germany (1511–16) practising his craft and frequenting the schools of the Meistersinger (‘mastersingers’, professional songwriters). He wrote over 6300 pieces, some celebrating the Reformation, others dealing with common life and manners in a vigorous, humorous style. His life and work were celebrated by Wagner in his opera dedicated to Sachs, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868, The Meistersinger of Nuremberg). |
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