Meaning of melomaniac | Babel Free

Definitions

One with an abnormal fondness of music; a person who loves music.

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“He then amused himself with the fiddle—tried the French horn for a season, varying the matter⟳ by a few lessons upon the clarionet and hautboy, and finally improving his powers of endurance by a little practising of the Kent bugle. He at length became a perfect melomaniac, and was always in danger of being indicted as a nuisance by his less scientific neighbours, whose ears were doomed to suffer⟳ both by night and by day.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To these varying degrees of sensation correspond spiritual realizations sufficiently precise and distinct to allow⟳ me to accord to plastic expression a value that on the other hand I shall never cease to refuse⟳ to musical expression, the most deeply confusing of all. Auditive images, in fact, are inferior to visual images not only in clearness but also in strictness, and with all due respect⟳ to a few melomaniacs, they hardly seem intended to strengthen in any way the idea of human greatness.”

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