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Mey·er·beer

(mī′ər-bîr′), Giacomo Originally Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer. 1791-1864.

German composer of French operas, notably Les Huguenots (1836).

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Meyerbeer

(German ˈmaiərbeːr)

(Biography) Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo), real name Jakob Liebmann Beer. 1791–1864, German composer, esp of operas, such as Robert le diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836)

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Mey•er•beer

(ˈmaɪ ərˌbɪər, -ˌbɛər)

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Giacomo (Jakob Liebmann Beer), 1791–1864, German composer.

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Meyerbeer - German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)

Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jakob Liebmann Beer

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Mademoiselle, to celebrate our wedding, you shall make a very handsome present to a few hundred Parisians who are at this moment applauding a poor masterpiece of Meyerbeer's

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In addition to Levy, salonniere hosts included Amalie Beer (mother of Giacomo Meyerbeer), Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (sister of Felix Mendelssohn), Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833), Henriette Herz (1764-1847), and Dorothea von Schlegel (1764-1839).

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It has also inspired operas such as Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Massenet's Therese and Herold's Le pre aux clercs.

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I admit that I had looked with a somewhat suspicious eye upon Faust (which I had never heard), Meyerbeer and Massenet, who were mere names, and worshipped none other gods of the opera save Mozart, Verdi and Wagner (with reservations).

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The inauguration program included Ernesto Vallejo playing Albeniz's 'Tango,' Monserrat Iglesias singing arias from Saint-Saens' 'Samson and Delilah,' and the Manila Music Academy under Alexander Lippay playing the Coronation March from Meyerbeer's 'The Prophet.'

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Giacomo Meyerbeer, Coronation March; Hector Berlioz, Chante Sacre'; Benoit Constant Fauconnier, Quatour; Andre' Gretry, Trio from Richard Coeur de Lion; Guiseppe Verdi, Fragments melodiquies sur Messe de Requiem; Henry Distin, Distin's Polka; John Distin, Distin's Military Quadrilles; George Frederick Handel, "Let the Bright Seraphim" from Samson; James Kent, Blessed Be Thou Lord God of Israel; Thomas Arne, Rule Britannia; Traditional, The Last Rose of Summer; Theodore Distin, Victory; Guiseppi Verdi, Sinfonia from Nabucco.

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The "Anvil Chorus" from Verdi's II Trovatore, and works by Wagner, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Weber, Flotow, and others, proved initially popular, but audience demand for opera gradually diminished.

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Pur ammirando in certa misura Donizetti, Mazzini non crede in fin dei conti che sara lui il genio tanto atteso in grado di compiere la riforma musicale; e se loda Meyerbeer, ignora pero totalmente, e in maniera sospetta, Verdi.

Italia, patria europea delle arti e della musica. Riflessioni sulla politica culturale in campo musicale nella Filosofia della musica di Giuseppe Mazzini

His essay "Why We Must Listen to Meyerbeer" is included in Robert Ignatius Letellier.

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Then in 1842 he premiered Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes), a grand historical opera in the Parisian manner of Giacomo Meyerbeer, with which he intended to take Paris by storm.