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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giacomo Meyerbeer has received more than 508,947 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Giacomo Meyerbeer is the 113th most popular composer (down from 101st in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 288th in 2019) and the 21st 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 113 out of 1,216. Before him are Francisco Tárrega, Mily Balakirev, Heinrich Schütz, Adolphe Adam, Alma Mahler, and Giulio Caccini. After him are Manuel de Falla, Max Bruch, Zoltán Kodály, Arthur Honegger, Josef Strauss, and Girolamo Frescobaldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 9. Before him are Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Théodore Géricault, Carl Czerny, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and James Buchanan. After him are Franz Bopp, Francesco Hayez, Eugène Scribe, Franz Grillparzer, István Széchenyi, and Minh Mạng. Among people deceased in 1864, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 4. Before him are George Boole, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Maximilian II of Bavaria. After him are Cheoljong of Joseon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Hong Xiuquan, Vuk Karadžić, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, William I of Württemberg, and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 362 out of 6,142. Before him are Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Walther Bothe (1891), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Werner Herzog (1942), Gregor Strasser (1892), and Rudolf Carnap (1891). After him are Paul Hausser (1880), Bruno of Cologne (1030), Theodor Heuss (1884), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Chlodio (393), and Peter Behrens (1868).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer ranks 21. Before him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Hans Zimmer (1957), Paul Hindemith (1895), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), and Heinrich Schütz (1585). After him are Max Bruch (1838), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Kurt Weill (1900), and Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645).

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