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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    the Inno delle nazioni. Boito, as a supporter of the grand opera of Giacomo Meyerbeer and an opera composer in his own right, was later in the 1860s critical...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Il crociato in Egitto (category Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer)
    crociato in Egitto (The Crusader in Egypt) is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at La Fenice...
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  • (1785–1849) Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) Johann Peter Pixis (1788–1874) Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861) Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe...
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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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    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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    Philippe de Rothschild married Nelly Beer, a great-grandniece of Giacomo Meyerbeer Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston of Churston...
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  • one by Metastasio, which Rossi used for Semiramide riconosciuta by Giacomo Meyerbeer. now usually 1 act Rossini and Adolphe Crémieux have also been credited...
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    "Jack" is based on "Jack of Leyden" Le prophète, an 1849 opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer that highly fictionalizes the rebellion Q, by Luther Blissett ISBN 0-15-101063-3...
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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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    rising musicians who happened to be in Vienna at the time, including Giacomo Meyerbeer and Domenico Dragonetti. The work received repeat performances at...
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    sometimes somewhat cool, terms with Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but in his letters expresses his frank disapproval of their works...
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    Her first representative was Gaspare Spontini, her most important Giacomo Meyerbeer. Music development has now also taken an upswing in other European...
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    that which one sings in most Protestant churches and figures in (Giacomo Meyerbeer's) The Huguenots. ... The original melody is extremely rhythmic, by...
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  • L'Africaine (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner) Turandot, Turandot (Puccini) Valentine, Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Vanessa, Vanessa...
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