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  1. Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Reader by Robert Ignatius Letellier, 2007-12-01
  2. An Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer: Operas, Ballets, Cantatas, Plays by Robert Ignatius Letellier, 2008-02-19
  3. Meyerbeer Studies: A Series Of Lectures, Essays, And Articles On The Life And Work Of Giacomo Meyerbeer by Robert Ignatius Letellier, 2005-06
  4. Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters by Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1989-08-24
  5. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Orchestral Works:The Incidental Music to Struensee, Fackeltanze, Overtures, Marches, Ballet Music (in Piano Score) by Giacomo Meyerbeer, 2009-07-01
  6. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Last Years 1857-1864 by Giacomo Meyerbeer, 2004-02
  7. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839 by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier, 1999-12
  8. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Briefwechsel und Tagebücher: Band 8: 1860-1864 (Giacomo Meyerbeer, Briefweschel und Tagebucher) (German Edition) by Sabine Henze-Dohring (Editor), 2006-12-01
  9. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Volume 2 by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Le Tellier, et all 2001-03-31
  10. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Years of Celebrity, 1850-1856 by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier, 2002-03
  11. The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer by Robert Ignatius Le Tellier, 2006-06-30
  12. Giacomo Meyerbeer, Musik ALS Welterfahrung: Heinz Becker Zum 70. Geburtstag (German Edition)
  13. Giacomo Meyerbeer: Eine Biographie nach Dokumenten (German Edition) by Reiner Zimmermann, 1991
  14. Giacomo Meyerbeer, ein Leben in Briefen (Taschenbucher zur Musikwissenschaft) (German Edition) by Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1983

1. Giacomo Meyerbeer - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864) was a noted Germanborn opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera.
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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 Michael Beer Meyerbeer made his debut as a nine-year old playing a Mozart concerto in Berlin. Throughout his youth, although he was determined to become a musician, he found it difficult to decide between playing and composition. Certainly other professionals in the decade 1810-1820, including Moscheles , considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer studied with Antonio Salieri and the German master and friend of Goethe Carl Friedrich Zelter . Realizing, however, that a full understanding of

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Giacomo Meyerbeer (Jakob Liebmann Beer). Born Vogelsdorf, near Berlin (Kingdom of Prussia), 5 Sept. 1791. Died Paris, 2 May 1864
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (Jakob Liebmann Beer)
Born: Vogelsdorf, near Berlin (Kingdom of Prussia), 5 Sept. 1791 Died: Paris, 2 May 1864 Meyerbeer changed his name in homage to his grandfather (Liebmann Meyer), the most influential (and wealthy!) member of the family.
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  • (23.12.1812, Hofoper, Munich)
  • Wirth und Gast , oder Aus Scherz Ernst (6.1.1813 Stuttgart) [ also performed as Die beiden Kalifen (20.10.1814, Vienna) and as Alimelek
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  • Gli amori di Teolinda (18.3.1816, Verona) [monodrama]
  • Romilda e Costanza (19.7.1817 Teatro Nuovo, Padua)
  • Semiramide riconosciuta (3.1819 Teatro Regio, Turin)
  • Emma di Resburgo (26.6.1819 Teatro San Benedetto, Venice) [also performed as Emma von Leicesters (11.2.1820, Berlin)]
  • Margherita d'Anjou (14.11.1820 Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
  • Eduardo e Cristina
  • L'esule di Granata (12.3.1822 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) [the date in Grove's Encyclopedia is incorrect]
  • Il crociato in Egitto (7.3.1824 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
  • Il crociato in Egitto [rev]
  • Margherita d'Anjou [rev]
  • Robert le diable
  • Les Huguenots
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  • Das Hoffest von Ferrara (28.2.1843, Berlin)

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German composer. Brother of the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the playwright Michael Beer, he achieved early success as a pianist. After he studied vocal writing in Italy, his Italian operas were well received. In Paris from c. 1825, he undertook work on a libretto by , and his Robert le Diable (1831) was one of opera's greatest triumphs from its premiere. Three later grand operas also became part of the international repertoire: Les Huguenots (1849), and L'Africaine Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi and Wagner himself. document.writeln(AAMB2); Images and Media: More on "Giacomo Meyerbeer" from Britannica Concise Scribe, (Augustin) Eugene - French playwright and librettist. Rubinstein, Anton (Grigoryevich) - Russian composer and pianist. More on "Giacomo Meyerbeer" from the 32 Volume Meyerbeer, Giacomo

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Born near Berlin in the year of Mozart's death into a family of cultured interests, Meyerbeer was a pupil of Abt Vogler and near contemporary of his fellow-pupil, Weber. He made his career in Paris, where he became the most important composer of French grand opera, although retaining wide cosmopolitan connections, in particular as Generalmusikdirektor from 1842 under King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, in whose service he continued after his resignation from his original position in 1848. Meyerbeer was a man of independent means, a fact that enabled him to exercise considerable care over the composition of operas and the choice of appropriate singers and to exercise some control over the press. Operas
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At the end of two years the grand duke appointed meyerbeer composer to the court. His first opera, Jephtha s Gelübde, failed lamentably at Darmstadt in 1811
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Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Composer Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Robert le Diable Mozart Carl Maria von Weber , who also took daily lessons in counterpoint, fugue and extempore organ-playing. At the end of two years the grand duke appointed Meyerbeer composer to the court. His first opera, , failed lamentably at Darmstadt in 1811, and his second, Wirth und Gast (Alimelek) , at Vienna in 1814. These checks discouraged him so cruelly that he feared he had mistaken his vocation. Nevertheless, by advice of Antonio Salieri he determined to study vocalization in Italy, and then to form a new style. But at Venice he was so captivated by Gioacchino Rossini that, renouncing all thought of originality, he produced a succession of seven Italian operas Romilda e Costanza Semiramide riconosciuta Eduardo e Cristina Emma di Resburgo Margherita d'Anjou L'Esule di Granata and Il Crociato in Egitto which all achieved a success as brilliant as it was unexpected. Against this act of treason to German art Weber protested most earnestly; and before long Meyerbeer himself grew tired of his defection. An invitation to Paris in 1826 led him to review his position dispassionately, and he came to the conclusion that he was wasting his powers. For several years he produced nothing in public; but, in concert with Scribe, he planned his first French opera

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