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Chapters: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ivan Stranski, Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer (5 September 1791 2 May 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer and producer of opera in Europe, yet is little known today. Statue of Meyerbeer in the Belgian town of Spa, where he stayed many timesMeyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf (now a part of Rüdersdorf), near Berlin with the name Jacob Liebmann Beer. His father was the enormously wealthy financier Jacob Judah Herz Beer (1769-1825) and his much-beloved mother, Amalia Liebmann Meyer Wulff (1767-1854) also came from the wealthy elite. Their other children included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet Michael Beer. Meyerbeer's first keyboard instructor was Franz Lauska (b. 1764), a pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and a favoured teacher at the Berlin court. Meyerbeer also became one of Muzio Clementi's pupils while Clementi was in Berlin, and old Clementi himself, although he had long given up teaching, was so much struck, during a visit to Berlin, with the promise displayed in the boy's performance as to consent to give Meyerbeer lessons. Meyerbeer made his public debut in 1801 playing Mozart's D Minor Piano Concerto in Berlin. The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung reported: 'The amazing keyboard playing of young Bär (a Jewish lad of 9 ), who carried off the difficult passages and other solo parts with aplomb, and has fine powers of rendition even more rarely found in one of his age, made the concert even more interesting'. Throughout his youth, although he was determined to become a musician, Meye...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=187895 ... Read more

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Title: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Eine Biographie nach Dokumenten.
Author: Keith Cochran
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v50Issue: n3Page: p965(3)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Les Huguenots, L'africaine, Ein Feldlager in Schlesien, le Prophète, Il Crociato in Egitto, Robert le Diable, Dinorah, L'étoile Du Nord, Jephtas Gelübde, Margherita D'anjou, L'esule Di Granata. Excerpt:Giacomo Meyerbeer item Dinorah, ou Le pardon de Ploërmel is an opéra comique in three acts, music by Giacomo Meyerbeer , libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré , based on a Breton legend Les chercheurs de trésor . Performance history It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart), in Paris , on April 4, 1859 under the title Le pardon de Ploërmel . The opera was translated in Italian for its premiere in London on July 26, 1859 (with Miolan-Carvalho ), became internationally known as Dinorah , and was first seen in New York in 1862. (It is also sometimes known as Les chercheurs de trésor .) Under its original title it received over 200 performances at the Opéra-Comique by 1912. The opera was initially extremely popular and became a great favorite of Adelina Patti , but is nowadays virtually forgotten except for the famous virtuoso aria for soprano "Ombre légère", sometimes known as the Shadow Song as it is a one-sided 'duet' by Dinorah with her shadow . Other sopranos who have enjoyed considerable success in the role of Dinorah are Amelita Galli-Curci , Ilma di Murskal , Luisa Tetrazzini and Maria Barrientos . Although the opera has been largely negelected in recent years, a rare broadcast performance of the overture by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra from November 12, 1938, has been preserved. This unusual overture has several sections with chorus, ample percussion, and is seen to compare favorably with those of Rossini and Verdi . Roles Role: Voice type: Premiere Cast, April 4, 1859 (Conductor: Meyerbeer) Synopsis Act 1 In the Breton village of Pl... ... Read more

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Title: Vocal music.(Giacomo Meyerbeer)
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Date: June 1, 2002
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Die schönsten Opern der Welt und ihre Libretti in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Alle LIbretti enthalten interaktive Inhaltsverzeichnisse und lassen so bequem einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, die jeweilige Sprache sofort auswählen. Dieses Libretto enthält folgende Sprachen: Deutsch, Französisch. ... Read more

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Die schönsten Opern der Welt und ihre Libretti in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Genießen Sie zum Klang Ihrer Lieblingsoper die Original-Texte auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Alle LIbretti enthalten interaktive Inhaltsverzeichnisse und lassen so bequem einzelne Akte und, falls mehrsprachig, die jeweilige Sprache sofort auswählen. Dieses Libretto enthält folgende Sprachen: Deutsch, Französisch. ... Read more

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The fame of Giacomo Meyerbeer is associated preeminently with the operatic stage, but he wrote for the voice extensively in other genres as well, and produced a small body of carefully crafted religious works throughout his life that reveal the depth of his religious convictions, and also his ecumenical openness to all forms of religious devotion. While studying with the Abbe Vogler in Darmstadt, the young composer had opportunities to show off his skills and serious endeavours. These were crowned by the composition of choral settings for seven religious odes by the influential eighteenth-century poet, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724 1803) (Sieben Geistliche Gesange, 1812, revised 1841). During his stay in Vienna, the young Meyerbeer produced another religious song in 1814, a setting of Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz s meditational poem 'An Gott'. This gifted and richly varied youthful work for four solo voices is characterized by its blooming melody and simple piano accompaniment. The seven Klopstock Lieder (or Sieben Geistliche Gesänge), also for vocal quartet, are on a higher artistic level. Klopstock, famous for his religious epic Der Messias (1745 73) inspired by Virgil and Milton, was regarded as a great religious poet who, particularly through his highly influential odes, helped to inaugurate the golden age of German literature. The seven poems used by Meyerbeer, in both strict strophe and freely composed verse effusion, capture the essence of Klopstock s vision, the rhetorical and rhapsodic nature of his spiritual fervour, modelled closely as they are on the Psalms. They affirm a life-transforming faith in the resurrection (Morgenlied), proclaim a Trinitarian faith in the creator-redeemer (Dem Dreieinigkeit), the enthusiasm of a believing community in sacrament and Sabbath (Vorbereitung zum Gottesdienst), a prayer of thanksgiving and divine consolation (Danklied), a renewal of faith in forgiveness and covenantal promise (Nach dem Abendmahl), exhilaration in earthly pilgrimage and the promise of immortality (Wach auf, mein Herz), and praise of Jesus as revelation of the divine light and wisdom, teacher of how to live and how to die (Jesus Christus wir sind hier). The Klopstock Lieder are highly lyrical and melodic, and for all their considerable technical challenges, are easily performable, and indeed were later revised for a wider European audience (1841). Meyerbeer s two most famous religious works were written late in his life, and within four years of each other. The monumental eight-part setting of Psalm 91 (known as 'Trost in Sterbengefahr' comfort in danger of death) (for four soloists and double chorus a cappella) was composed at the request of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV for the Berlin Cathedral in 1853. The music, for all its complex vocal disposition, breathes a trusting intimacy akin to that of Mendelssohn s psalm settings that became so popular. It contrasts with the intimate and beautiful four-part offertorium Pater Noster (1857), in the purest of church styles, also written for the Berlin Domchor, and printed in the musical journal La Maîtrise later in the same year. This motet deserves a high place among the many settings of this most famous of prayers. Its serene melody operates on a striking principle of contrast between the fortissimo of the emphatic injunction of the phrase 'as we forgive those who trespass against us' and the contrasting pianissimo used for anxiety and contrition of the following 'and lead us not into temptation'. ... Read more

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Chapters: Love Parade, Felix Mendelssohn, Berlin Philharmonic, List of Songs About Berlin, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Kroll Opera House, Berlin State Opera, Herbert Dreilich, Berliner Philharmonie, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Ocean Collective, Berlin Singakademie, Komische Oper Berlin, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Adolf Martin Schlesinger, Staatskapelle Berlin, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Kulturfabrik Moabit, Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, So36, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, Sonderzug Nach Pankow, Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, Radrennbahn Weissensee, Ludwig Rellstab, Matrix, World Doctors Orchestra, Jazzfest Berlin, Köpenicker Blues Und Jazz Festival. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born into a notable Jewish family, although he himself was brought up initially without religion, and later as a Lutheran Christian. He was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended seriously to dedicate himself to it. Early success in Germany was followed by travel throughout Europe; Mendelssohn was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there (during which many of his major works were premiered) form an important part of his adul...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=76370 ... Read more

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Title: Meyerbeer Studies: A Series of Lectures, Essays, and Articles on the Life and Work of Giacomo Meyerbeer.(Book review)
Author: Mark Everist
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Date: September 1, 2007
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Title: Meyerbeer's L'Africaine: French grand opera and the Iberian exotic.(Giacomo Meyerbeer)(Critical essay)
Author: Jean Andrews
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, le Pardon de Ploërmel, L'africaine, le Prophète, L'étoile Du Nord. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Robert le Diable est un opéra en cinq actes de Giacomo Meyerbeer, sur un livret d'Eugène Scribe et Germain Delavigne, joué pour la première fois le 21 novembre 1831 à l'Opéra de Paris, avec mesdames Dorus-Gras et Cinti-Damoreau, messieurs Nourrit et Levasseur, sous la direction de François-Antoine Habeneck. Le succès remporté fut si considérable que l'Opéra de Paris fit fortune. Alice et Robert, acte III scène IV. Illustration pour le livret. En Sicile au siècle. Robert, frère de lait d'Alice (symbole de pureté), est le fils de Satan (connu sous le nom de Bertram) et d'une mortelle. Il est poursuivi par son père qui cherche par tous les moyens à le tenter et à obtenir sa perte. Banni de Normandie, Robert s'est réfugié en Sicile où il s'éprend d'Isabelle qui l'aime aussi. Alors qu'il doit participer à un tournoi, Robert se laisse tenter par Bertram, il joue et perd même son armure. Les faits sont relatés par le troubadour Raimbault dont Robert veut se venger, mais qui échappe au courroux du fils du diable grâce à Alice. Au palais, Isabella de Sicile remet une armure à Robert qui doit de nouveau participer à un tournoi. Mais encore une fois tenté par son père, il perd son honneur de chevalier. Dans la caverne Sainte-Irène, Bertram organise une orgie, avec les mauvais esprits, où il compte amener son fils. Dans les ruines du couvent de Sainte-Rosalie. Bertram demande aux nonnes mortes qui ont brisé leurs vœux de sortir de leur tombe. Il a promis à son fils qu'une branche de cyprès lui permettrait de réaliser tous ses désirs s'il parvenait à s'en emparer au-dessus de ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ernst-Günther Baade, Günter Eich, Markus Meckel, Ernst Von Pfuel, Alfred Blaschko. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer (5 September 1791 2 May 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer and producer of opera in Europe, yet is little known today. Statue of Meyerbeer in the Belgian town of Spa, where he stayed many timesMeyerbeer was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf (now a part of Rüdersdorf), near Berlin with the name Jacob Liebmann Beer. His father was the enormously wealthy financier Jacob Judah Herz Beer (1769-1825) and his much-beloved mother, Amalia Liebmann Meyer Wulff (1767-1854) also came from the wealthy elite. Their other children included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet Michael Beer. Meyerbeer's first keyboard instructor was Franz Lauska (b. 1764), a pupil of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and a favoured teacher at the Berlin court. Meyerbeer also became one of Muzio Clementi's pupils while Clementi was in Berlin, and old Clementi himself, although he had long given up teaching, was so much struck, during a visit to Berlin, with the promise displayed in the boy's performance as to consent to give Meyerbeer lessons. Meyerbeer made his public debut in 1801 playing Mozart's D Minor Piano Concerto in Berlin. The Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung reported: 'The amazing keyboard playing of young Bär (a Jewish lad of 9 ), who carried off the difficult passages and other solo parts with aplomb, and has fine powers of rendition even more rarely found in one of his age, made the concert even more interesting'. Throughout his youth, although he was determined to becom...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=187895 ... Read more

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Giacomo Meyerbeer's (1791-1864) cantatas, spanning his middle and late life, were written in response to royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and to praise the deeds of famous men. Their festive nature is indicated in the titles: festival song, festival greeting, festival hymn, song, choral song, homage. Like a continuation of the 18th -century tradition of patronage, the more famous Meyerbeer became, the more his services were required by public authorities. Although a burden to him, and a distraction from his dramatic vocation, the composer understood the importance of these works for his life and public perception - especially in Germany, where his Jewishness was always a source of comment. His special relationship with the Prussian Royal Family was one of the most significant features of his life - as it was for Felix Mendelssohn. Meyerbeer's cantatas can be divided into Royal commission and civic/national ones.There are royal birthdays ("the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha", and "the Grand Duchess of Baden"), weddings ("Princess of Louise of Prussia"), marriage anniversaries ("King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Prince Karl of Prussia"), coronations ("King Wilhelm I") and state visits ("Queen Victoria"). These are parallelled by commemoration of historical events and personages - the invention of printing (1436) by Johann Gutenberg (1397-1468), commemoration of the Prussian national hero Frederick the Great (1712-1786), the unveiling of the monumental equestrian stature of the famous king by the great sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch (1777-1857), and commemoration of the centenary of the birth of the illustrious dramatic poet and chronicler of idealism and freedom, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805). In all of these works, Meyerbeer's powers of lyric beauty, dramatic perception, orchestral colour and drama, and sense of pomp and circumstance, are amply in evidence. They reveal a side to this great operatic composer that has been completely forgotten, and now awaits discovery.This collection, including both published vocal and full scores, contains the unpublished cantata written for Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1784, ruled 1806-1844), the father of Prince Albert the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. ... Read more