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Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Noun1.Giacomo Meyerbeer - German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)Giacomo Meyerbeer - German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)


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by the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera House, New York Exemplified by the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer, French Grand Opera was among the dominant styles of the early nineteenth century.
At the nadir of his poverty at the age of twenty-six, living in a Parisian garret with his wife, he appealed to a rather mediocre but moderately successful Jewish composer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, for help.
Johann Sebastian Bach used it in his Cantata #80 (1730), Felix Mendelssohn in his Reformation Symphony (1830), Richard Wagner in Kaisermarch (1871) and Giacomo Meyerbeer in Les Huguenots (1836).
 
 
 
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