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Whether lighthearted or sad

and with her "Brother Surveillance Tool

during the second half of the 19th century

certain traits in this trio already seem to reveal Dvorak's profound affinity with Brahms on an instinctive level

Wagner/ Hawlata/ Ernst - Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Release:Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg BBC / Opus Arte John Prine)Ostensibly, Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are potentially eligible. But upon closer inspection, what is at first glance a harmless farce in a middle class setting emerges as a profound social analysis. Wagner uses his protagonists to show how a