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Updated: May 25, 2025
The poet, Walther von der Vogelweid, he it is who has been my master!" Sachs has listened with a surprised, charmed sympathy. He nods beamingly: "A good master!" "But long dead!" snaps Beckmesser; "How could he learn the canons from him?" Kothner proceeds without comment to the next question: "In what school did you learn to sing?"
It is easy to see that these critics are symbolized by the old pedant Beckmesser, and that in Walter we have Wagner himself. When he is first brought in contact with the Mastersingers, and one of their number, Kothner, asks him if he gained his knowledge in any school, he replies, "The wood before the Vogelweid', 'twas there I learnt my singing;" and again he answers: "What winter night.
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