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    Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer...
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  • Mussolini Giacomo Medici (general) (1817–1882), Italian patriot and soldier Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), German-born opera composer Giacomo Nizzolo (born...
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    and the rise of spectacular grand opera under composers such as Giacomo Meyerbeer. From the early 1830s to 1855, when he left Paris and was based in...
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  • The following is a list of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864). Notes Becker (1980), 246 Letellier, pp. 24-25. Letellier, 50. Letellier, 57. Huebner...
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    L'Africaine (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837...
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  • (Bernstein) Dalinda, Ariodante (Handel) Dinorah, Le pardon de Ploërmel (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Dorinda, Orlando (Handel) Elisa, Il re pastore (Mozart) Elizabeth...
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    Robert le diable (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831, to a libretto written in French by Eugène Scribe...
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  • the originality of its orchestration. 1831 Robert le diable (Giacomo Meyerbeer). Meyerbeer's first Grand Opera for Paris caused a sensation with its ballet...
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    Les Huguenots (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    Les Huguenots (French pronunciation: [le ˈyg(ə)no]) is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera...
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    composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk...
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    angloconcertina.org/files/ConcertinasatSea1.pdf Giacomo Meyerbeer (1 January 2002). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856. Fairleigh...
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    ISBN 3-11-018030-8. Retrieved 2007-08-26. Giacomo Meyerbeer (2004). Robert Ignatius Letellier (ed.). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Fairleigh Dickinson University...
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    the advent of grand opera typified by the works of Daniel Auber and Giacomo Meyerbeer as well as Carl Maria von Weber's introduction of German Romantische...
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    Il crociato in Egitto by Giacomo Meyerbeer (2007) - Video Live recording on DVD - Dynamic Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer (2012) - Live recording...
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    Friedrich Reichardt, the ensemble's Kapellmeister. After the advent of Giacomo Meyerbeer as Kapellmeister, from 1842, the role of the orchestra expanded and...
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  • Carolus Boromaeus, was a Moravian pianist, composer, and teacher of Giacomo Meyerbeer. The name "Seraphin" was a later name affix, which Lauska never used...
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  • D'Abano An Englishman Abroad (1983) as Guildenstern Wagner (1983) as Giacomo Meyerbeer Ronde de nuit [fr] (1984) as James – le majordome The Perils of Gwendoline...
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    Portici) in 1828, which paved the way for the large-scale works of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Auber held two important official musical posts. From 1842 to 1871...
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    cousin of the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel and Giacomo Meyerbeer.[citation needed] It is unknown whether he was related to the French...
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  • marches include: Michael Haydn: Marcia tuchesca in C major (1795) Giacomo Meyerbeer: Wirt und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst, Act II: Türkischer Marsch Mikhail...
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    instituted the tradition of regular symphonic concerts. In the same year, Giacomo Meyerbeer succeeded Gaspare Spontini as General Music Director. Felix Mendelssohn...
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    Giuseppe Giòe) Vaghissima sembianza (Stefano Donaudy) Deh ch'io ritorni (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Bois epais (Jean Baptiste Lully) A dream (John Bartlett) Domine deus...
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    Das Judenthum in der Musik (category Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    it discusses the music of Jewish composers Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer, acknowledging its technical proficiency but criticizing it as lacking...
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  • Loris Gambelli, Elena Baggiore, dir. Nicola Rescigno - ed. Myto Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots (live, Barcelona, 1971), with Christiane Eda-Pierre...
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    Le prophète (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto...
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    Dinorah (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    Ploërmel), is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The story takes...
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    the opera L'Africaine (1865) about Vasco da Gama by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The slave Nelusko sings a song about Adamastor while he deliberately...
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  • von Carolsfeld Jess Thomas as Albert Niemann Vernon Dobtcheff as Giacomo Meyerbeer Gabriel Byrne as Karl Ritter Sir William Walton as King Frederick...
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    Wilhelm Beer (category Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Beer's fame derives from his hobby, astronomy. He built a private...
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  • disparaging term for the French romanticism of Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer from 1830 onwards, which he regarded as a degenerated form of true...
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