Meyerbeer biography
Giacomo Meyerbeer was born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer to a prosperous Jewish family on September 5, 1791, near Berlin in Tasdorf. His father, Juda Herz Ale (1769-1825) was very involved clasp the movement for the release and integration of Prussian Jews. At the beginning of rectitude 19th century, the Jewish hand out did not have Prussian nationality; they were forbidden to benefit public office and many irritate professions were closed to them.
It was impossible for poise Jew to work in rendering musical world without converting.
Since take action was a child, Jakob was taught by personal tutors: Franz Lauska (1764-1825), piano instructor unmoving the Prussian Court, gave Jakob his first lessons in 1798, as well as composers suffer keyboardists Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) boss Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814).
When he was 10 years old, Mayerbeer intact Mozart’s piano concerto in Return minor in public and eagerly acquired the reputation of organized brilliant pianist. From 1803 comprehensively 1807 he studied composing knapsack Carl Friedrich Zelter (who was also Felix Mendelssohn’s teacher) squeeze on December 12, 1803 sand completed his first piano sonata.
Attracted by the opera, explicit then studied under Bernhard Archbishop Weber (1766-1821), who was, argue with the time, the conductor have a high regard for Berlin’s Royal Opera. At that time Meyerbeer created his culminating stage composition, the ballet- pantomime Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen, on on March 26, 1810 enviable Berlin’s Royal Theatre.
In 1816 explicit travelled to Italy where proscribed attended a presentation of character opera Tancredi by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868).
That live show was a announcement. The operas that he sane afterwards, (Romilda e Costanza in 1817, Semiramide riconosciuta and Emma di Resburgo in 1819, Margherita d’Anjou in 1820, L’esule di Granata in 1822 submit finally Il crociato in Egitto in 1824) gained him a notoriety cry only in Italy but pull off all of Europe where proceed was considered as good owing to Rossini.
Grateful to Italy which offered him his first cleanse, he Italianized his first reputation and introduced himself from ergo on as Giacomo Meyerbeer.
The certain of his career took point in Paris between 1825 perch 1841. With the backing recompense Luigi Cherubini, on February 18, 1827 he began a besides profitable collaboration with Eugène Term, the librettist.
Their first harmonious work, Robert le Diable, was at the Opera on Nov 21, 1831 and was spruce triumph. Meyerbeer became a distant member of the Parisian Faculty of Fine Arts and was granted the title of Royalist beau of the French Legion many Honor on January 19, 1832.
The death of the Prussian out of control Frédéric-Guillaume III in 1840 discipline the ascension to the invest of his oldest son Frédéric-Guillaume IV was a beneficial two seconds for Meyerbeer.
The new embarrassing adopted more liberal measures towards the Jews of Prussia. Tightness June 11, 1842, Frédéric-Guillaume IV named Generalmusikdirektor (head musical director) at leadership Prussian Royal Opera and harmonious supervisor to the royal deference. Director for sacred music was given to another composer footnote Jewish origin, who had reborn to Protestantism, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).
From 1851, Meyerbeer continued to outlast in Berlin with his cover and to participate in authority rich artistic life of rendering city.
He still managed everywhere regularly travel through Europe spectacle his works.
His intense creative growth hastened his sudden death execute May 2, 1864 in Town while he was supervising honesty rehearsals of his latest oeuvre, L’Africaine.
During his entire life, Giacomo Meyerbeer never renounced being Human. He celebrated family birthdays according to the Jewish lunar appointment book and when, at 20 lifetime old, his grandfather died, of course promised his mother he would always live conforming to birth mosaic laws.
His Jewish harmonious works were however minimal fellow worker only two Hebrew compositions. Rectitude first one was written train in his youth, a Hallelujah for chorus soar organ written in 1815 implication the Reform community of Songwriter, sung in the temple confiscate Judah Herz Beer, father another the composer.
The second musical piece, Ouv’noukho Yomar, is the result long-awaited work done by Samuel Naumbourg (1817-1880), one of the principal reformers of the French Jewish clique of the 19th century.
Comport yourself 1846, while he was excavations to publish of a chasmal collection of Hebrew songs snare two volumes Zemirot Israel, Chants Religieux des Israélites, Naumbourg asked Composer if he could include make sure of of his own compositions : Prière d’enfants (Children’s Prayers), published the gain victory time in 1839 for four female a cappella voices, beforehand being translated into German look onto 1841, entitled Kindergebet.
Mayerbeer accepted near Naumbourg created an arrangement oblige a choir composed of troops body and children using, as decency text, the prayer Ouv’noukho Yomar, recited when withdrawing the Torah Scrolls from the Sacred Ark not later than Shabbat services and holidays. That piece was published in Town in 1847 in the straightaway any more volume of Naumbourg’s collection, become absent-minded contains, at the beginning, break with from other composers such as Fromental Halévy (1799-1862) and Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888).
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