melomane

Noun

melomane (plural melomanes)

1. Synonym of melomaniac.
   • Monsieur de Rochetaillée was a melomane. He thought of nothing, cared for nothing but music. It was the passion of his life; he could not live without music and musicians.1868, [Henrietta Camilla] Jenkin, Two French Marriages, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 12
   • But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.2000, Kermit Swiler Champa, “Painted Responses to Music: The Landscapes of Corot and Monet”, in Marsha L. Morton, Peter L. Schmunk, editors, The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth...

   Synonyms:

   melomaniac