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Meyerbeer

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

noun

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


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Attendees at the 1864 premiere there included not only the Parisian elite but the composers Meyerbeer, Auber and Ambroise Thomas; in rehearsal, Rossini himself turned pages for the first pianist and nodded tempo instructions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

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

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2021

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

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2020

Diana Damrau, a Meyerbeer specialist, was to have sung the coloratura part of Marguerite, but she cancelled in August, for health reasons.

From The New Yorker Oct. 15, 2018

Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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