Giacomo Meyerbeer, German pianist and composer (died 1864)

Giacomo Meyerbeer

German-born opera composer (1791–1864)

Giacomo Meyerbeer 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…