melomaniac

Poor Lilly, it is doubtful if she was by endowment more than a lovely melomaniac doomed never to emerge from her musical primaries.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

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.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

But the drummers gave out in their turn, and I had to send the insatiable melomaniac and his family on shore at last, whether he would or no.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

The melomaniac was anxious to learn the real cause of the tenor's _fiasco_.

Massimilla Doni Honor�� de Balzac 1824

-- that obstinate melomaniac, who, seized in the fingers, deplores his misfortune as loquaciously as ever he sang the joys of freedom in his tree?

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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. [

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence