Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Verdi's predecessors who influenced his music were Rossini, Bellini, Giacomo Meyerbeer and, most notably, Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante.

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Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand Opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer.

* 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( d. 1864 )

* September 5 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( d. 1864 )

* May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer ( b. 1791 )

After Rossini moved to Paris in 1824, Pacini and his contemporaries ( Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nicola Vaccai, Michele Carafa, Carlo Coccia, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, the brothers Federico and Luigi Ricci, and Saverio Mercadante ) collectively began to change the nature of Italian opera and took bel canto singing in a new direction.

* 1820: Margherita d ' Anjou by Giacomo Meyerbeer

The 1865 grand opera L ' Africaine: Opéra en Cinq Actes, composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto by Eugène Scribe, prominently includes the character of Vasco da Gama.

He later continued studying in Vienna with Georg Joseph Vogler, known as Abbé Vogler, founder of three important music schools ( in Mannheim, Stockholm, and Darmstadt ); another famous pupil of Vogler was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who became a close friend of Weber.

His unfinished opera Die drei Pintos ( The Three Pintos ) was originally given by Weber's widow to Giacomo Meyerbeer for completion ; it was eventually completed by Gustav Mahler, who conducted the first performance in this form in Leipzig on 20 January 1888.

He also met Heinrich Marschner in Hanover, Wagner in Dresden and Giacomo Meyerbeer in Berlin.

Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent, technical legato style which he passed on to an entire generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny.

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* Fides, Le prophète ( Giacomo Meyerbeer )

* Les Huguenots ( 1836 ) by Giacomo Meyerbeer

* Semiramis appears in many plays and operas, for example Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis and operas with the title Semiramide by Domenico Cimarosa, Marcos Portugal, Josef Mysliveček, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Gioachino Rossini.

Das Judenthum in der Musik ( German: " Jewishness in Music ", but normally translated Judaism in Music ; spelled after its first publications as ‘ Judentum ’ ) is an essay by Richard Wagner which attacks Jews in general and the composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn in particular.

Here he met with, and was supported by, Felix Mendelssohn and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

According to some he was a cousin of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer.

* Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, completed here his opera Robert le diable in 1830.

Giacomo Meyerbeer, Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1847

Giacomo Meyerbeer ( born Jacob Liebmann Beer ) ( 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864 ) was a German opera composer, who with his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors gave the genre of grand opera ' decisive character '.

He was to adopt the surname Meyerbeer on the death of his grandfather Liebmann Meyer Wulff ( 1811 ) and the first name Giacomo during his period of study in Italy, around 1817.

* 1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer ( d. 1729 )

* 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* Giacomo Grillo ( 1893 – 1894 )

* Liborio Angelucci, Giacomo De Mattheis, Panazzi, Reppi, Ennio Quirino Visconti, Consuls ( 20 March – September 1798 )

* 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer ( b. 1665 )

* 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

* 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesu and Villa Farnese ( b. 1507 )

* 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

* 1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer

* 1971 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher ( b. 1884 )

Among his sons, Giacomo ( died 1379 ) was created cardinal by Gregory XI in 1371, while Nicola ( August 27, 1331 – February 14, 1399 ) obtained the counties of Ariano and Celano.

Pope Honorius IV ( c. 1210 – 3 April 1287 ), born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years, from 1285 to 1287.

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* April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer ( b. 1661 )

* September 7 – Giacomo Aconcio, Italian pioneer of religious tolerance ( d. 1566 )

* June 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

* December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

* June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer ( b. 1798 )

* January 6 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer ( b. 1779 )