Meyerbeer

[ mahy-er-beer; German mahy-uh r-beyr ]

/ ˈmaɪ ərˌbɪər; German ˈmaɪ ərˌbeɪr /

noun

Gia·co·mo

[jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/, Jakob Liebmann Beer, 1791–1864, German composer.

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Examples from the Web for meyerbeer

The piece was extremely interesting, but its historical situations took me along the road already travelled by Meyerbeer.
My Recollections|Jules Massenet
Wagner had abused Meyerbeer for doing what he did himself—writing operas stuffed with spectacular effects.
Visionaries|James Huneker
The curtain rose upon the fourth act, and what did Meyerbeer behold?
An Englishman in Paris|Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
Yet we are no more stirred by Meyerbeer than we are by Monk Lewis.
Studies in Modern Music, Second Series|W. H. Hadow

Meyerbeer acted on the suggestion with such felicity and force as to make it the crowning beauty of the work.
Great Musical Composers|George T. Ferris

British Dictionary definitions for meyerbeer

Meyerbeer

/ (German ˈmaiərbeːr) /

noun

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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