Giacomo Meyerbeer
German-French composer
- Fame56.5
- Momentum2.6
- Musicians rank#151
GermanyNetwork
In their orbit
People connected to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Summary
Updated 2026-06-12
He owned the nineteenth century's opera stages more completely than anyone between Mozart and Wagner — a German who conquered Paris by fusing orchestral weight with Italian vocal fire, then wrapped it all in Scribe's melodrama and the latest stage machinery.
Biography
About
Born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer to a wealthy Jewish family on 5 September 1791, he started as a pianist before turning to opera and spending years studying in Italy. His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto gave him a Europe-wide reputation, but Robert le diable in 1831 made him a celebrity and defined grand opera's "decisive character." Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849) marked his peak; L'Africaine appeared only after his death on 2 May 1864. Simultaneously he served as Prussian Court Kapellmeister from 1832 and General Music Director from 1843, shaping opera across Germany and enabling…
Gallery
Photos
5 images · refresh overdue
Deep cuts
Albums
Low confidence
Where to find them
Platforms
By the numbers
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Stable56.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum2.6
Historical24.3
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Receipts
Sources
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
_(contrast).jpg)
01.jpg?width=1200)
.png?width=1200)
