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Definition of Masterworks
1. masterwork [n] - See also: masterwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masterworks
Literary usage of Masterworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1903)
"Nerve-troubles attend creation of two masterworks: Ninth Symphony and
Ring-poem.—Rheingold commenced in a fog ; interrupted by illness midway ; finished ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"At this time she made an earnest study of the masterworks of painting to be seen
in Paris ; and she thus describes her ex- rience in endeavoring to explain ..."
3. First Lessons in German by Sigmon Martin Stern (1898)
"... tlie ancients' poets created the greatest masterworks "; " we admire tlie
masterworks of the ancients" ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Their prayer was granted and the ten petitioners were exempted from the production
of 'masterworks,' but their pupils and all who were to come after them ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"... had found it, namely by adhering to the masterworks of the past. How surprisingly
he at once succeeded in this, is proved by the first artistic deed he ..."
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