Definition of Engelbert Humperdinck

1. Noun. German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921).

Exact synonyms: Humperdinck
Generic synonyms: Composer

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Literary usage of Engelbert Humperdinck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"... (Kingly Children) Fairy Opera in three acts by Engelbert Humperdinck. Text by Rosmer. IN a small sunlit glade in the Hella Mountains the first act takes ..."

2. The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together with 400 of the by Gustav Kobbé, Katharine Wright (1922)
"... KINGS' CHILDREN Opera by Engelbert Humperdinck with a libretto by Ernst Rosmer. The first performance on any stage was at the Metropolitan House, ..."

3. Modern Drama and Opera: Reading Lists on the Works of Various Authors by Clara A. Mulliken Norton, Frank Keller Walter, Fanny Elsie Marquand, Archibald Henderson (1915)
"Upton, George P. Engelbert Humperdinck. (In his Standard musical biographies. 1910. pp. 227-31.) Humperdinck. (In American history and encyclopedia of ..."

4. The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas with Illustrations by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1921)
"Music by Engelbert Humperdinck. First produced, December 23, 1893, at Weimar. First American production at Daly's Theatre, New York, October 8, 1895. ..."

5. Siegfried: Second Opera of the Rhinegold Trilogy. Music-drama in Three Acts by Richard Wagner (1889)
"Att I Arranged by Engelbert Humperdinck .50 Parsifal and the Flower Maidens (Die ... Arranged by Engelbert Humperdinck. lu paper l.oo LIBRETTO. ..."

6. The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas, with by Charles Annesley (1904)
"... Music by Engelbert Humperdinck After a long period of " Sturm mid Drang," we have an opera ..."

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