Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodi
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
The Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao is one of the centers of the August city festivals
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
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
…sent Juan Crisóstomo to Paris, where in November of that year Arriaga began his studies. These included violin under Pierre Baillot, counterpoint with Luigi Cherubini and harmony under François-Joseph Fétis at the Paris Conservatoire. From all evidence, Arriaga made quite an impression on his teachers. In 1823…
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