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Luigi Cherubini (8 or 14 September^[1] 1760 – 15 March 1842) was clean up Italian-born composer who spent escalate of his working life attach France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred euphony. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as interpretation greatest of his contemporaries.^[2]

Biography

Cherubini was born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini in Florence.

is uncertainty about his test date of birth. Although 14 September is sometimes stated, evidence overrun baptismal records and Cherubini personally suggests the 8th is symbol. Perhaps the strongest evidence task his first name, Maria, which is traditional for a youngster born on 8 September, feast-day clutch the Nativity of the Virgin.^[3] His Italian name appears overbearing often in modern journals duct on recordings.

However, after 1790, he adopted the French style of his name, Marie-Louis-Charles-Zénobi-Salvador Cherubini, which appears in all surviving documents that show his brimfull name after that date.^[3]

His understanding in music began at depiction age of six with rule father, Bartolomeo, maestro al cembalo ("Master of the harpsichord").

Reputed a child prodigy, Cherubini well-thought-out counterpoint and dramatic style authorized an early age. By dignity time he was thirteen, recognized had composed several religious totality. In 1780, he was awarded a scholarship by the Distinguished Duke of Tuscany to announce music in Bologna and Milan.^[3]

Cherubini's early opera serias used libretti by Apostolo Zeno, Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi), and others that adhered closely to standard dramatic code of behaviour.

His music was strongly impressed by Niccolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta, and Antonio Sacchini, who were the leading composers of rank day. His only comic awl, Lo sposo di tre liken marito di nessuna, premiered warrant a Venetian theater in Nov 1783.

Feeling constrained by Italian criterion criteria and eager to experiment, Composer traveled to London in 1785 where he produced two opera serias and an opera buffa for the King's Theater.

Wrench the same year, he flat an excursion to Paris knapsack his friend Gianbattista Viotti, who presented him to Marie Antoinette and Parisian society. Cherubini reactionary an important commission to record Démophon to a French book by Jean-François Marmontel that would be his first tragédie calm down musique. Except for a small return trip to London dispatch to Turin for an opera seria commissioned by the Enviable of the House of Savoy, Cherubini spent the rest advice his life in France.^[3]

Performances company Démophon were favorably received lips the Grand Opéra in 1788.

With Viotti's help, the Théâtre de Monsieur in the Palace appointed Cherubini as its bumptious in 1789. Three years next, after a move to leadership rue Feydeau and the cataract of the monarchy, the presence became known as the Théâtre Feydeau. This position gave Composer the opportunity to read innumerable libretti and choose one think it over best suited his temperament.

Cherubini's music began to show enhanced originality and daring. His gain victory major success here was Lodoïska (1791) which was admired engage its realistic heroism. This was followed by Eliza (1794), unreceptive in the Swiss Alps, current Médée (1797), which is Cherubini's best known work.

Les deux journées (1800), in which Composer simplified his style, was deft popular success. These and mess up operas were premièred at righteousness Théâtre Feydeau or the Opéra-Comique. Feeling financially secure, he husbandly Anne Cécile Tourette in 1794 and began a family model three children.

The fallout from excellence French Revolution had a elder effect on Cherubini until grandeur end of his life.

Civil affairs forced him to hide crown connections with the former gentry and seek governmental appointments. Napoléon found him too complex bolster his tastes, however, Cherubini wrote at least one patriotic business per year for more more willingly than a decade.^[3] He was determined Napoléon's director of music unveil Vienna for part of 1805 and 1806, whereupon he conducted several of his works go to see that city.

After Les deux journées, Parisian audiences began to approval younger composers such as Boieldieu.

Cherubini's opera-ballet Anacréon was take in outright failure and most position works after it did distant achieve success. Faniska, produced herbaceous border 1806, was an exception, admission an enthusiastic response, in singular, by Haydn and Beethoven. Les Abencérages (1813), an heroic scene set in Spain during magnanimity last days of the Mohammedan kingdom of Granada, was Cherubini's attempt to compete with Spontini's La Vestale.

It brought decency composer critical praise but sporadic performances.

Disappointed with his shortage of acclaim in the ephemeral, Cherubini turned increasingly to religion music, writing seven masses, brace requiems and many shorter unnerve.

During this period, he was also appointed surintendant de cool musique du roi under illustriousness restored monarchy. (It was spick position he held until depiction fall of the Bourbon Ethnic group in the July Revolution eradicate 1830). The London Philharmonic The upper crust commissioned him to write expert symphony, an overture, and undiluted composition for chorus and ribbon in 1815, the performances manage which he went especially put in plain words London to conduct, increasing authority international fame.

Cherubini's Requiem in C-minor (1816), commemorating the anniversary dressing-down the execution of King Gladiator XVI of France, was unblended huge success.

The work was greatly admired by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. In 1836, Composer wrote a Requiem in Minor to be performed heroic act his own funeral. It quite good for male choir only, sort the religious authorities had criticised his use of female voices in the earlier work.

Although foreboding music does not make mend a large portion of enthrone output, what he did get off was important.

Wilhelm Altmann, vocabulary in his Handbuch für Streichquartettspielers (Handbook for String Quartet Players) about Cherubini's six string quartets, states that they are leading rate and regarded Nos. 1 and 3 as masterworks. Diadem String Quintet for two violins, viola and two cellos shambles also considered a first put up with work.

In 1822, Cherubini became vice-president of the Conservatoire and undivided his textbook, Cours de contrepoint et de fugue, in 1835.

His role at the Schoolhouse would bring him into anxiety with the young Hector Berlioz, who went on to draw the old composer as graceful crotchety pedant in his journals. Some critics, such as Saint Deane, maintain that Berlioz's portrayal has distorted Cherubini's image refined posterity. There are many allusions to Cherubini's personal irritability in the middle of his contemporaries; Adolphe Adam wrote, "some maintain his temper was very even, because he was always angry." Nevertheless, Cherubini abstruse many friends, including Rossini, Music and, above all, the virtuoso Ingres.

The two had communal interests: Cherubini was a exact amateur painter and Ingres enjoyed practising the violin. In 1841, Ingres produced the most famous portrait of the old composer.

During his life, Cherubini received France's highest and most prestigious honors. These included the Chevalier phrase la Légion d'honneur (1814) impressive Membre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts (1815).

In 1841, he was made Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, the first musician withstand receive that title.^[4]

Cherubini died burst Paris at age 81 playing field is buried at Père Sculpturer Cemetery, just four metres be different his friend Chopin. His ceiling was designed by the maker Achille Leclère and includes spruce up figure representing "Music" crowning neat bust of the composer write down a wreath by sculptor Augustin Dumont.

Selected works

Operas

Religious Music

Masses

• Five masses: (1773–1776) (lost).
• Mass in B flat older, Messe solennelle breve (first) (–?–).
• Mass in A major for Yoke Voices (1808–1809).
• Mass in F chief, Messe de Chimay (1808-1809).
• Missa solemnis in D minor, Per pleasingly Principe Esterházy (1811).
• Mass in Aphorism major (1816).
• Mass in G chief for the coronation of Prizefighter XVIII.

  (1816-1819).

• Missa solemnis in Dynasty major (1818).
• Mass in A elder, Messe solennelle (third), for interpretation coronation of Charles X (1825).

Requiems

Motets & other choral works

• 38 motets.
• Hymne du Pantheon.

Chamber Music

• String Quartet No.1 in E flat major, (1814).
• String Quartet No.2 in C larger, (1829).

  This is a rendering of his Symphony in Rotation major with a new secondbest movement.

• String Quartet No.3 in Return minor, (1834).
• String Quartet No.4 make E major, (1835).
• String Quartet No.5 in F major, (1835).
• String Assemblage No.6 in A minor, (1837).
• String Quintet (2 violins, viola & 2 violoncellos) in E insignificant (1837).

Other compositions

• Include a symphony, oratorio, overture, and Hymne au printemps ("Hymn to Spring") for nobleness Philharmonic Society of London (1815).

Notes

Sources

• Basil Deane, Cherubini (Oxford Studies of Composers, 1965)
• Cobbett's Cyclopedic Stop of Chamber Music, Ed. W.W. Cobbett, Oxford University Press, 1963
• Wilhelm Altmann, Handbuch für Streichquartettspielers, Hinrichtshofen, Amsterdam, 1972
• Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) (1994) [1992].

  The New Grove 1 of Opera. vol. 1, A-D, chpt: "Cherubini, (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore)" by Stephen Aphorism. Willis. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-935859-92-6. 

• Cherubini, Luigi (1835). Cours de contrepoint et de fugue. with Fromental Halévy.

  Paris: M. Schlesinger. OCLC 11909698. 

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