Citations:melomaniac

English citations of melomaniac

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1. One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music. [late 19th c.]
   • 1910, Robert Means Lawrence, “The Healing Influence of Music”, in Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge [Mass.], →OCLC, page 176:

     Of all the animals, the lions were apparently the most susceptible to musical influence, and these royal beasts showed an interest in the sweet tones of the graphophone, akin to that of a human melomaniac.

   • 1912, José Rizal, Charles Derbyshire, “The Performance”, in The Reign of Greed: A Complete English Version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish of José Rizal (Project Gutenberg; EBook #10676)‎^[1], Manila: Philippine Education Company, published 10 October 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 July 2017, page 215:

     The truth was that Padre Irene, who was a melomaniac of the first degree and knew French well, had been sent to the theater by Padre Salvi as a sort of religious detective, or so at least he told the persons who recognized him.

   • 1919, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, “Bartering the Ancestral Name”, in Frances Douglas, transl., The Dead Command [...] From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan, New York, N.Y.: Duffield & Company, →OCLC, page 63:

     A short time before he had gone to Baireuth to hear the Wagnerian operas, and now in the capital of Bavaria he attended the theater of the Residence, where the Mozart festival was celebrated. Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years.