Richard Wagner classical music. His "Tristan und Isolde" is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The "Ring" and "Parsifal" were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" ("The Mastersingers of Nuremberg"). Until his final years, Wagner's
Good Friday gives other examples with the sense "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of "good" ("good", adj. 8c) as in "good tide" meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and "Good Wednesday" meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week. In German-speaking countries, Good Friday is generally referred to as "Karfreitag" ("Kar" from Old High German "kara"‚ "bewail", "grieve"‚ "mourn", Freitag for "Friday"): Mourning Friday. The "Kar" prefix is a cognate of the English word "care" in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as "Stiller Freitag" ("Silent Friday")