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
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
Démophoon is an opera by the composer Luigi Cherubini, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique on 2 December 1788. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jea
Luigi Cherubini