Humperdinck

[ hoom-puhr-dingk; English huhm-per-dingk ]

noun

1. Eng·el·bert [eng, -, uh, l-be, r, t, eng, -g, uh, l-burt], 1854–1921, German composer.

Humperdinck

/ ˈhʊmpərdɪŋk /

noun

1. HumperdinckEngelbert18541921MGermanMUSIC: composer Engelbert (ˈɛŋəlbɛrt). 1854–1921, German composer, esp of operas, including Hansel and Gretel (1893)

Example Sentences

Humperdinck's music reproduces, with infinite art, the tender and childlike charm of the delightful old fairy tale.

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Humperdinck is the first German operatic composer of distinct individuality since the death of Wagner.

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Humperdinck's melody is founded upon the Volkslied, and he uses at least one nursery tune with charming effect.

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Siegfried Wagner, in spite of his parentage, seems to have founded his style principally upon that of Humperdinck.

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Humperdinck, of course, whom I recognized in a minute from his photos.

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