Meyerbeer - Le Prophète - Coronation March

Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, after passages from the Essay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations by Voltaire.

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[dfurrows]

What people don't realize today is how original Meyerbeer was, and how almost every composer after 1840 borrowed his ideas and his harmony and his orchestration effects. People compare him unfavorably to Wagner only because they came to know Wagner's later music first. Of course, his music is not all at a consistent level, but that was intentional. As Mendelssohn said, after hearing Robert le Diable, "Etwas fuer jeden" -- Something for everyone!

[Pre]

Meyerbeer really deserves more appreciation today!

[vesteel]

I believe this is Richard Bonygne conducting the London Symphony Orchestra

[ricardosilveira]

I play flute and my concert band is playing this amazing song!

[donaldtice]

If only my Mondays were like this sounds. Alexandra

[tanwilliamzq]

Very uplifting piece of music! Thanks for posting!

[enriquesanchez]

The tremendous success of Le prophète at its Paris première provoked Wagner's anti-Jewish attack on Meyerbeer, in Das Judenthum in der Musik, which also attacked Mendelssohn.

[tomislavzoricic]

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera Finale 1. act!!!

[GailFelker]

This beautiful song was played as the recessional for the graduation of Texas A & M students on May 31, 1935.

[rodcrippler]

to breadis: Meyerbeer is not a 1 hit wonder, most of his operas enjoyed great exposure, befor that Wagner bastard betrayed his once mentor and attacked his music to the point of oblivion

[vanderpuch]

Meyerbeer is very far from a one opera composer.    His ballet for this opera, The Prophet,  is perfomed often.  It is the first ballet to use roller skates, recently invented. 

[yogatonga]

First I disliked this piece, but now I love it.

[guadalupelozano]

la Grandeza y la Gloria en su maxim expresion, musica para los grandes esadistas que hace mucho tiempo dejaron de existir.-

[TANGAMAR]

EN MUCHAS OCASIONES HE OIDO ESTA VERSIÓN CON EL NOMBRE DE " LA ALFONSINA " . SUPONGO QUE DEBIÓ SER MANIPULADA PARA CONVERTIRLA EN MARCHA ESPAÑOLA Y HONRAR LA MEMORIA DEL REY ALFONSO XII.

[robertmwoodley]

Bit of a gallop to the altar here! Hope the "coronee" was fit! Wagner hated it, probably because it was so popular.

[iCrescendo]

I have to study this in 1 week on my baritone sax... Challenge accepted!

[youcantlikethat]

Oh you poor thing and I'm serious. My high school plays this for graduation as the seniors are leaving.

[baronderochemont]

To my ear this sounds very similar to Bach's Musette in D major.

[DuhuKaralius]

the face tells me "You schmuck!...grr..."

[parthoroy]

The composer who coined the phrase "Hold my beer"