Meyerbeer, Giacomo

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Basic data

  1. Philodikaios; Billig, Julius Pen Names
  2. Meyerbeer, Jacob; Beer, Meyer Alternative Names
  3. September 5, 1791 in Tasdorf
  4. May 2, 1864 in Paris
  5. Komponist
  6. Darmstadt, Italien, Paris, Berlin

Iconography

Giacomo Meyerbeer, engraving from a photograph by Pierre Petit (1865) (Source: Wikimedia)
The young Jacob Beer, portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1803) (Source: Wikimedia)
Amalie Beer, Meyerbeer's mother, painting by Carl Kretschmar [de], c. 1803 (Source: Wikimedia)
Gioachino Rossini in 1820 (Source: Wikimedia)
Jules Arnout's lithograph of Act 3 scene 2 of Robert (the 'Ballet of the Nuns') at the Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier), 1831 (Source: Wikimedia)
Adolphe Nourrit (Source: Wikimedia)
Eugène Scribe (Source: Wikimedia)
Pauline Viardot (Source: Wikimedia)
Meyerbeer's grave in Berlin (Source: Wikimedia)
Heinrich Heine on his sickbed, 1851 (Source: Wikimedia)
Advertisement for the sheet music of Le pardon de Ploërmel (Dinorah) (Source: Wikimedia)
Le prophète – Act 4, scene 2, of the original production, set design by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (Source: Wikimedia)
Cover of the first edition of Liszt's Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" (Source: Wikimedia)
Robert Schumann in an 1850 daguerreotype (Source: Wikimedia)
Richard Wagner around the time of his first meeting with Meyerbeer – portrait by Ernst Benedikt Kietz [de], c. 1840 (Source: Wikimedia)
Berlin memorial plaque, Pariser Platz 6a, Berlin-Mitte, Germany (Source: Wikimedia)

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