Vinyl records

Giacomo Meyerbeer vinyl records

2 albums with 28 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer. Born 1791-09-05 in Tasdorf, Mark Brandenburg, died 1864-05-02 in Paris. German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century. His father was a very wealthy financier and his mother also had an elite background. His siblings included the astronomer Wilhelm Beer and the poet Michael Beer. He adopted the surname Meyerbeer on the death of his grandfather Liebmann Meyer Wulff and the first name Giacomo during his period of study in Italy, around 1817. Meyerbeer won his first great success at the Paris Opéra in 1831 with Robert le diable (‘Robert the Devil’).