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Giacomo Meyerbeer

German-born opera composer

1791 - 1864

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His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2024). Giacomo Meyerbeer is the 107th most popular composer (up from 109th in 2024), 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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Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks #20 among 541 notable people born in Berlin, Germany, inside the top 4% by HPI.

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Giacomo Meyerbeer's biography appears in 52 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 92% of all Composers.

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Among Composers

Among composers, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 107 out of 1,493. 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 8,184. 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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