Cherubini

[ ker-oo-bee-nee; Italian ke-roo-bee-nee ]

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noun

Ma·ri·a Lu·i·gi Car·lo Ze·no·bio Sal·va·to·re [mah-, ree, -ah loo-, ee, -jee , kahr, -law dze-, naw, -byaw sahl-vah-, taw, -, r, e], 1760–1842, Italian composer, especially of opera; in France after 1788.

Cherubini

/ ˌkɛrʊˈbiːnɪ /

Cherubini(Maria) Luigi17601842MItalianMUSIC: composer ( Maria ) Luigi ( Carlo Zenobio Salvatore ) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.

Cherubini, who towers above all of them, was indeed the high-priest of the art, the grand-master of the craft.

As evidence of the younger master's respect for the older one may be adduced a copy made by Chopin of one of Cherubini's fugues.

I took some of my exercise books under my arm, to give Cherubini some notion of what Reicha had taught me.

Cherubini offered to take him as a pupil, but his father preferred to bring him up in the musical atmosphere of his own home.

At dinner, at the suggestion of the same garrulous talker, the company drink the healths of Goethe and Cherubini.

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