in blood and surrounded by Furies. As the temple burns, Médée vanishes into the air with the Furies, promising to meet Jason in the underworld. Personalities | Luigi Cherubini | Early Romantic | Opera ...
(Loo-e’-je Ka-roo-be’-ne) 1760–1842 Italian composer and teacher Cherubini was a dominant figure in French musical life, particularly as a composer of operas, but also as director of the Paris Conservatoire. He studied with Giuseppe Sarti in Bologna and Milan (1778–81) before returning to his native Florence. After a brief period in London, where he composed La finta principessa (‘The ...
1760–1842, Italian The Italian composer Luigi Cherubini studied in Florence, Bologna and Milan, first writing church music, and then, in 1779, producing his first operas. By 1787, when he settled in Paris, he had written 13 operas, but nothing, as yet, that was innovatory. This changed when his Démophon (1788) ...
womanhood and the brotherhood of man. The insistent, emphatic tone of Fidelio’s choral finale, drawing its power from massed forces and sheer reiteration, shows Beethoven’s debt to Cherubini and the composers of the so-called French Revolutionary School. A more pervasive influence on the opera is Mozart, though a movement like the quartet in Act II has a ...
c. 1759–c. 1803, Italian Adriana Ferrarese was known as ‘La Ferrarese’ from her birthplace, Ferrara. In 1785, in London, she sang in Demetrio by Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842). Da Ponte, her mentor, wrote libretti for operas by Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806) and Salieri in which she took part. However, Mozart was not particularly impressed ...
(Dan-yel’ Fran-swa Es-pre’ O-bâr’) 1782–1871 French composer Auber is renowned for his operas and was the leading composer of opéras comiques in nineteenth-century France. He studied with Cherubini in Paris, writing concertos and vocal music before turning his attention to operas. His most important work is La muette de Portici (1828), one of many collaborations with the librettist Eugène Scribe ...
1782–1871, French The French composer Daniel Auber made a favourable impression on his teacher, Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) with his first opera, L’erreur du moment (‘The Mistake of the Moment’, 1805). However, he had to wait 15 years for popular appreciation until he established himself with two works: La bergère châtelaine (‘The Lady Shepherdess’, 1820) and Emma (1821). ...
deux nuits (‘The Two Nights’, 1829) signalled a more adventurous approach, but it did not achieve the same lasting success. Harmonically, Boieldieu was more restricted than Méhul or Cherubini, but the freshness and elegance of his melodic invention greatly impressed his contemporaries. Recommended Recording: La dame blanche, soloists, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (cond) Marc Minkowski (EMI/Erato) ...
(Zhak Fran-swa’ Fro-mon-tal A-la-ve’) 1799–1862 French composer Halévy was born in France and entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. From 1811 he studied with the composer Cherubini, who was a great influence on him. Halévy won the Prix de Rome in 1819 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire from 1827 (where his pupils included Bizet and Gounod). A ...
1799–1862, French Jacques-François-Fromental Halévy, who was born in Paris, studied there with several composers – of whom the most influential was Cherubini. Success at the opera house was rather long in coming, however, and Halévy had to endure rejections and failures before scoring his first success with Clari (1828), which was written for the Spanish mezzo-soprano ...
b. 1926 Canadian tenor Vickers joined the Covent Garden company in 1957, singing Verdi’s Gustavus and Berlioz’s Aeneas. In 1958 he sang the title-role in the Giulini-Visconti production of Don Carlos, and Siegmund at Bayreuth, followed by Jason in Cherubini’s Medea in Dallas. He sang Siegmund and three other roles in Vienna in 1959. He made his Metropolitan ...
the Mountain Pasture’) for violin and orchestra. Recommended Recording: Nordic Violin Favourites, Henning Kraggerud, Dalasinfoniettan (cond) Bjarte Engeset (Naxos) Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | Luigi Cherubini | Early Romantic | Classical ...
Verdi’s Luisa Miller (1849) and Il trovatore but died six months before the latter premiered in Rome on 19 January 1853. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Luigi Cherubini | Early Romantic | Opera ...
open air – in the 1790s. The Te Deum by Gossec was written for the first great festival in 1790, and represents the beginning of the Revolutionary hymn. Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817) and others also contributed to the genre. Such works were generally characterized by four-square phrases and harmony, militaristic rhythms and woodwind and brass accompaniment; later ...
on Der Tod und das Mädchen (‘Death and the Maiden’). Mendelssohn and Schumann in contrast often used more pianistic forms and idioms. Some composers, notably Spohr, Reicha and Cherubini, turned to the less formal, more virtuoso potential of variations on popular themes, potpourris and quatuors brillants in which the first violin dominated the texture. Beethoven’s Sonatas ...
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