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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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German-French composer
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Giacomo Meyerbeer, born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer in 1791, was a composer, conductor, autobiographer, and music director. He was a citizen of the Kingdom of Prussia and is primarily associated with the genre of opera. Meyerbeer studied under Muzio Clementi, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Georg Joseph Vogler, and Franz Lauska. He was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and spoke German.
He received several awards, including the Commander of the Legion of Honour, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, the Pour le Mérite, and the Knight of the Legion of Honour. Meyerbeer died in Paris in 1864 and is buried at the Schönhauser Allee Jewish Cemetery. He was Jewish and had siblings Wilhelm Beer and Michael Beer, as well as a mother named Amalie Beer. His works are described in sources such as the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1791
- Active to
- 1864
Discography
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. Meyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf, near Berlin, Germany with the name Jacob Liebmann Beer. His father was the enormously wealthy financier Jacob Judah Herz Beer (1769-1825) and his much-beloved mother, Amalia Liebmann Meyer Wulff (1767-1854) also came from the wealthy elite. Their other children included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giacomo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Tasdorf
- Place of death
- Paris
- Mother
- Amalie Beer
- Sibling
- Michael Beer
- Occupation
- music director
- Languages spoken
- German
- Student of
- Carl Friedrich Zelter
- Genre
- opera
- Image
- Meyerbeer d'après P. Petit b 1865.jpg
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- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- date of birth
- 1791-00-00
- date of death
- 1864-05-24
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- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- birth name
- Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer
- place of burial
- Schönhauser Allee Jewish Cemetery
- name in native language
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- P12749
- Maria Barbara Bach
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- Commons Creator page
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- archives at
- Berlin State Library
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Giacomo Meyerbeer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Il crociato in Egitto [Música notada] :]grand'opera del Sigr. Mº Giacomo Meyerbeer
Roberto il diavolo [Música notada]: opera in cinque atti
Roberto il diavolo [Música notada] :]melodramma in 5 atti posto in musica del Maestro G. Meyerbeer
Roberto il diavolo.. Acto 3º, escena 2ª,, Valzer infernale [Música notada]
La stella del nord. Recvo. e romanza : Beati i dì (Pietro) (B.)
La stella del nord.. Canto bacchico : Graziose vivandiere (Pietro) (B.)
Valse infernale de Robert le diable [Music noticed]
Schiller-Marsch [Música notada] :]marche triomphale
[Ouverture de L'étoile du Nord de Meyerbeer] [Música notada] :] [supplement pour la jouer à deux orchestres]
L'étoile du Nord .. Ouverture [Música notada] :]opéra comique en 3 actes
Le croisé en Égypte [Música notada]: opéra [Música notada]
Le croisé en Égypte [Música notada]: opéra
El profeta.. Marcha de la coronación =O propheta. Marcha da coroaçâo
Beautiful fishermaiden [Música notada]
Les Huguenots [Música notada] :]opéra en 5 actes
Arie favorite nell'opera Il crociato in Egitto
Ouverture et choeur d'introduction de l'opéra Robert le diable [Música notada]
Suona funera, Inno di morte, nel Crociato in Egitto : con accompagnamento di piano forte
Va gia varcasti indegno, Scena e duetto, nel Crociato in Egitto : con accompagnamento di piano forte
Le prophète [Música notada] :]a grand opera
L'africaina.. Atto I, , Recitativo e romanza, Addio, terra nativa [Música notada] :]opera in 5 atti
Le pardon de Ploërmel de G. Meyerbeer [Música notada] : morceau de salon pour flûte avec accompt. de piano
Le pardon de Ploërmel de G. Meyerbeer [Música notada]
El profeta [Música notada] : ópera de Giacomo Meyerbeer
Krönungsmarsch [Música notada] : aus der Oper Der Prophet
Roberto il diavolo.. Scena ed evocazione, Suore, che riposate [Música notada]
Le prophète [Música notada] :]opéra en 5 actes
Le pardon de Ploërmel [Música notada] :]opéra-comique en trois actes
Roberto il diavolo [Música notada]: opéra en 5 actes pour chant et piano
Gli Ugonotti [Música notada] :]opéra en 5 actes de Giacomo Meyerbeer
The Prophet [Música notada]
L'africaine [Música notada] :]opéra en 5 actes
Preludio é coro delle donne, acto 3º [Música notada]
Roberto il diavolo [Música notada] : opera-ballo in cinque atti di Giacomo Meyerbeer
Il profeta [Música notada] :]opéra en 5 actes pour chant et piano
L'Étoile du Nord [Música notada] :]opéra-comique en trois actes
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Encyclopedic overview
Giacomo Meyerbeer, engraving from a photograph by Pierre Petit (1865)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera "decisive character". Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. They set a standard that helped to maintain Paris as the opera capital of the nineteenth century.
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