Meyerbeer

[ mahy-er-beer; German mahy-uhr-beyr ]

noun

1. Gia·co·mo [jah, -kaw-maw], Jakob Liebmann Beer, 1791–1864, German composer.

Meyerbeer

/ ˈmaiərbeːr /

noun

1. MeyerbeerGiacomo17911864MGermanMUSIC: composer Giacomo (ˈdʒaːkomo), real name Jakob Liebmann Beer. 1791–1864, German composer, esp of operas, such as Robert le diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836)

Example Sentences

His medium of expression was the full modern orchestra, which came after Meyerbeer.

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Tchaikovsky was familiar with this style of orchestration from the operas of Meyerbeer and Glinka.

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Meyerbeer is at present at Paris, and has attended several public as well as private concerts.

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Im a cipher, because Ive had no training, but Ive incomparably more melody and more ideas in me than in Meyerbeer.

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In 1811 a still greater excitement disturbed the serenity of Meyerbeer's period of study.

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