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Definition of Meyerbeer
1. Noun. German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meyerbeer
Literary usage of Meyerbeer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Musical World (1860)
"It is fortunate for art that meyerbeer had rich parents. ... meyerbeer. His musical
gifts manifested themselves from earliest childhood. ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"meyerbeer, upon the cordial invitation of Vogler, joined this school in Feb. ...
meyerbeer and Weber lived together for nearly two years in the same room, ..."
3. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"We shall soon see him make his appearance as composer and virtuoso at the same
time (for meyerbeer was an exceptional pianist), then promptly abandon his ..."
4. My Musical Life by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1898)
"Crossing to Dieppe, he met the crafty and clever meyerbeer, who instantly saw
the man he had to deal with, and ">!•'. probably conceived in a moment that ..."
5. Great Composers and Their Work by Louis Charles Elson (1898)
"meyerbeer. Although Wagner has called meyerbeer "a miserable music-maker," "a
Jew banker to whom it occurred to make operas," one cannot dismiss Giacomo ..."
6. The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera : with Full Descriptions of by Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1897)
"... that his last two works—the only two, in fact, which have survived—represent
with singular completeness the two influences which affected meyerbeer ..."
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