Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy, was a French opera composer, widely regarded in his lifetime as one of the central figures of 19th-century French music.
Fromental Halévy (c. 1860–62), by Étienne Carjat
The bust of Halévy on the façade of the Palais Garnier.
Lithograph of soprano Madeleine Nottes as Rachel in the opera "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 greates
Fromental Halévy
…17 March 1862), was a French opera composer, widely regarded in his lifetime as one of the central figures of 19th-century French music. A student of Luigi Cherubini, he achieved his first major triumph with La Juive (1835), a cornerstone of the grand opéra repertoire, and which Gustav Mahler considered one of the…
Portrait of Cherubini with a bust of his mentor Giuseppe Sarti (1792)
Title page of the first edition of Cherubini's Médée, full score, 1797
Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The crowning Muse displeased Cherubini and is blacked out in some copies.[citation needed]
The grave of Cherubini, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, with sculpture by Augustin Dumont