Cherubini

American  

[ker-oo-bee-nee, ke-roo-bee-nee] / ˌkɛr ʊˈbi ni, ˌkɛ ruˈbi ni /

noun

1. Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore 1760–1842, Italian composer, especially of opera; in France after 1788.

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Cherubini British  

/ ˌkɛrʊˈbiːnɪ /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

This year’s Roads of Friendship concert series will launch on July 7 in Ravenna, and feature the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra founded by Muti, the Cremona Ancient Choir as well as Jordanian musicians.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

Sporting director Cherubini - not among the indicted representatives - and Massimiliano Allegri, will be responsible for what happens on the playing side.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

It includes four concertos by Mozart, which Mr. Tuckwell recorded several times over, two by Richard Strauss, and works by composers as disparate as Cherubini, Bruckner, Brahms, Ravel and Shostakovich.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2020

The rigorous fury of his orchestral writing anticipates Beethoven, Cherubini, and even Berlioz, who was swayed toward a life in music by an electrifying encounter with “Les Danaïdes,” in the early eighteen-twenties.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

Luigi Cherubini was one such composer, born in Florence but able to flourish in Paris by tiptoeing deftly between opposing camps as political power changed hands before, during and after the Revolution.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall