Meyerbeer

American  

[mahy-er-beer, mahy-uhr-beyr] / ˈmaɪ ərˌbɪər, ˈmaɪ ərˌbeɪr /

noun

1. Giacomo Jakob Liebmann Beer, 1791–1864, German composer.

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Meyerbeer British  

/ ˈmaiərbeːr /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”

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She also cultivates 18th- and 19th-century operatic repertoire from Mozart to Meyerbeer, at prominent houses such as Zurich Opera and the Paris Opera.

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In her first season in Hanover, Berman scored a hit with Halévy’s religious potboiler “La Juive” — which, like Meyerbeer’s grand operas, faded from the repertory by the early 20th century.

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Her first was “L’Enfant de la montagne,” published when she was just 19 in a collection organized by Meyerbeer, Paganini and Cherubini.

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Grand operas by Meyerbeer are now treated as curiosities, yet during his lifetime they were ubiquitous.

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