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Giacomo Meyerbeer

1791 - 1864

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Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'. Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition. These were employed in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris Opéra. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giacomo Meyerbeer is the 107th most popular composer (up from 109th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 368th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Composer.

Giacomo Meyerbeer is most famous for his operas, which include "The Huguenots" and "The Seven Deadly Sins."

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 107 out of 1,451. Before him are Arvo Pärt, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Joaquín Rodrigo, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, and Léo Delibes. After him are Alma Mahler, Domenico Cimarosa, Mikhail Glinka, Zoltán Kodály, Mily Balakirev, and Muzio Clementi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 8. Before him are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Théodore Géricault, James Buchanan, and Carl Czerny. After him are Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, Johann Franz Encke, Franz Grillparzer, and Eugène Scribe. Among people deceased in 1864, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 4. Before him are George Boole, Maximilian II of Bavaria, and Ferdinand Lassalle. After him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Vuk Karadžić, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cheoljong of Joseon, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Hong Xiuquan, and J. E. B. Stuart.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 332 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Hartmann (1922), Carl Zeiss (1816), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Friedrich Ratzel (1844), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), and Wilhelm Frick (1877). After him are Gustav Stresemann (1878), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), James Franck (1882), Carol I of Romania (1839), Henry the Lion (1129), and Klaus Schwab (1938).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 20. Before him are Johann Christian Bach (1735), Hans Zimmer (1957), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Heinrich Schütz (1585), and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714). After him are Paul Hindemith (1895), Max Bruch (1838), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Kurt Weill (1900), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732).

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