Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy, was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.
Lithograph of soprano Madeleine Nottes as Recha in the opera by "The Jewess", 1858, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Cherubini's operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini.
Title page of the first edition of Cherubini's Médée, full score, 1797
Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Louvre). The crowning Muse displeased Cherubini and is blacked out in some copies.[citation needed]
The grave of Cherubini, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, with sculpture by Augustin Dumont