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Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini (; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries.
Luigi Cherubini Feeling constrained by Italian traditions and eager to experiment, Cherubini traveled to London in 1785 where he produced two "opere serie" and an "opera buffa" for the King's Theatre. In the same year, he made an excursion to Paris with his friend the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, who presented him to Marie Antoinette and Parisian society. Cherubini received an important commission to write "Démophoon" to a French libretto by Jean-François Marmontel that would be his first "tragédie en musique." Except for a brief return trip to London and to Turin for an "opera seria" commissioned by King Victor Amadeus III, Cherubini spent the rest of his life in France where he was initiated into Grand Orient de France "Saint-Jean de Palestine" Masonic Lodge in 1784.
Luigi Cherubini In 1808 Cherubini was elected an associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands.
Luigi Cherubini In 1780, he was awarded a scholarship by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to study music in Bologna and Milan. Cherubini's early "opera serie" used libretti by Apostolo Zeno, Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi), and others that adhered closely to standard dramatic conventions. His music was strongly influenced by Niccolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta, and Antonio Sacchini, who were the leading composers of the day. The first of his two comic works, "Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna," premiered at a Venetian theater in November 1783.
Luigi Cherubini Disappointed with his lack of acclaim in the theater, Cherubini turned increasingly to church music, writing seven masses, two requiems, and many shorter pieces. During this period (under the restored monarchy) he was appointed "Surintendant de la Musique du Roi", a position he would hold until the fall of Charles X (1830). In 1815 London's Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned him to write a symphony, an overture, and a composition for chorus and orchestra, the performances of which he went especially to London to conduct, increasing his fame.