First period instrument recording of Luigi Cherubini's long neglected Requiem in C minor, which premiered on January 21, 1817, in a memorial concert below the abbey church of St. Denis to commemorate the anniversary of the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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First professional Boston performances of Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C minor in 2005, a neglected work highly praised by leading composers of the day and favorably compared with Mozart's Requiem.
- Without contradiction this is the finest he has made, even including that of Cherubini.
His tomb was designed by the architect Achille Leclère and includes a figure by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont representing "Music" crowning a bust of the composer with a wreath.
The couple invited musicians such as Daniel Auber, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Luigi Cherubini, Charles de Bériot and Maria Malibran to Paris and later to Chimay, where Thérésa held a little court.
Luigi Pirandello | Luigi Nono (composer) | Luigi Nono | Luigi Comencini | Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli | Luigi Cherubini | Luigi Chinetti | Luigi Dallapiccola | Luigi Tenco | Luigi Ambrosio | Pier Luigi Nervi | Luigi Galvani | Luigi's Mansion | Luigi Russolo | Luigi Pasinetti | Luigi Lucheni | Luigi Galleani | Luigi Schiavonetti | Luigi Pulci | Luigi Manini | Luigi Macaluso | Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza | Luigi Infantino | Luigi Fantappiè | Luigi Cozzi | Luigi Arditi | Luigi | Pier Luigi Farnese | Pier Luigi Bersani | Luigi Zingales |
The chamber music of Borodin, Respighi, Saint-Saëns, the piano trios of Richard Strauss, the chamber music of the Terezin Composers, Joseph Rheinberger, Eric Zeisel, Max Bruch, Willem Pijper, Zdenek Fibich, Glazunov, Edmund Rubbra, Luigi Cherubini, Wilhelm Stenhammar are among the subjects which appeared in past issues.
His numerous works include the musical comedy Pierre le Grand (1790), with music by André Ernest Modeste Grétry and the opera Les deux journées (1800), with music by Cherubini.
The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Fredrik Sixten include a Pie Jesu as an independent movement.