Robert Ignatius Letellier (born 1953, inDurban,South Africa) is acultural historian and academic, specialising in the history of music, Romantic literature and the Bible. He teaches at theMaryvale Institute and theInstitute of Continuing Education,University of Cambridge.

Letellier has ten degrees in a range of subjects, including English, history, philosophy, and scripture.^[1] He has aDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree inEnglish Romanticism from theUniversity of Salzburg, and aDoctor of Sacred Theology (STD) degree in Scripture from thePontifical Gregorian University.^[1] He teaches music, literature and cultural history at theInstitute of Continuing Education,University of Cambridge.^[1]

Letellier has published more than one hundred articles and books on subjects including the Bible, eighteenth and nineteenth century novels, especially the works ofSir Walter Scott, and 19th-century music.^[2] He is particularly noted for scholarship on the life and works of the composerGiacomo Meyerbeer. Letellier's four-volume translation of the composer's diaries has been cited as "the most important work on the composer to be published in English to date".^[3] He has also published several studies of the composer's operas and other works which have played an important part in the revaluation of Meyerbeer, the most popular composer of the 19th century, whose works fell into almost complete neglect in the 20th but are now being rediscovered.^[4]

As editor and translator:

• Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1999–2004).The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer (4 vols.). Translated by Letellier, Robert. Madison and London: Farliegh Dickinson University Press.

As author:

• The English Novel, 1660-1700: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group 1997.ISBN 978-0313303685
• The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2006.ISBN 978-0-8386-4093-7.
• The Ballets of Ludwig Minkus, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008.ISBN 978-1847184238.
• An Introduction to the Dramatic Works of Giacomo Meyerbeer: Operas, Ballets, Cantatas, Plays, Routledge 2008.ISBN 978-0754660392
• Opera-Comique: A Sourcebook, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010.ISBN 978-1443821407.
• Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: The Man and His Music, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010.ISBN 978-1-4438-2597-9.
• Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: An Evangel of Religion and Love, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014.ISBN 978-1-4438-5666-9.
• Operetta: A Sourcebook I and II, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015.ISBN 978-1443877084.
• The Bible in Music, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017.ISBN 978-1443873147.
• Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Critical Life and Iconography, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018.ISBN 978-1-5275-0396-0.

• 1953 births
• Living people
• People from Durban
• Meyerbeer scholars
• South African literary critics
• 20th-century South African historians
• 20th-century South African male writers
• 21st-century South African historians
• 21st-century South African male writers
• Rhodes University alumni
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• University of Salzburg alumni
• Academics of the Institute of Continuing Education
• South African Roman Catholic priests
• Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
• Pontifical Biblical Institute alumni
• South African biblical scholars
• Roman Catholic biblical scholars

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