Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini ( ; ; 8 atau 14 September 1760 – 15 Maret 1842) merupakan seorang komponis klasik dan romantik Italia. Karangannya yang paling terkenal adalah opera dan musik kudus. Beethoven menganggap Cherubini sebagai komponis paling terkenal di zamannya. Opera-operanya sangat dipuji oleh Rossini.

Karya

Musik orkestra

Overture in G (1815)
Symphony in D major (1815)
Marche funèbre (1820)

Musik kamar

String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat (1814)
String Quartet No. 2 in C (1829) - transcription of Symphony in D major with new second movement
String Quartet No. 3 in D minor (1834)
String Quartet No. 4 in E (1835)
String Quartet No. 5 in F (1835)
String Quartet No. 6 in A minor (1837)
String Quintet (2 violins, viola, 2 cellos) in E minor (1837)

Misa dan bagian dari misa

Five masses (written 1773–1776, lost)
Messe solennelle brève in B-flat (1805, dubious)
Credo a capella for eight voices and organ (1806)
Mass in A for three voices (1809, dubious)
Messe de Chimay in F (1809)
Missa solemnis in D minor (1811) per il Principe Esterházy
Mass (4th messe solennelle) in C (1816)
Credo in D (1816)
Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus (1816) in memory of Louis XVI
Missa solemnis in E (1818)
Mass in G (1819) for the Coronation of Louis XVIII
Mass in B-flat (1821, dubious)
Messe solennelle in A for the Coronation of Charles X (1825)
Requiem in D minor for male chorus (1836) written for his own funeral

Motet dan karya paduan suara lainnya

Cantata Amphion (1786)
Cantata Circé (premiered 1789)
Trois chœrs: Incidental music for the play La Mort de Mirabeau by Jean-Baptiste Pujoulx (1791)
Cantata Clytemnestra (1794)
Cantata Hymne au printemps ("Hymn to Spring") (1815) 
Hymne du Panthéon (1794) 
38 motets

Panduan mengajar 
 A treatise on counterpoint and fugue (1841)

Referensi

Kutipan

Sumber 

 Altmann, Wilhelm, Handbuch für Streichquartettspielers, Amsterdam: Hinrichtshofen, 1972
 Cherubini, Luigi (with Fromental Halévy, Cours de contrepoint et de fugue, Paris: M. Schlesinger, 1835 OCLC 11909698
 Deane, Basil, Cherubini (Oxford Studies of Composers, 1965)
 Cobbett, W.W. (Ed.), Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, Oxford University Press, 1963.
Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. .
Willis, Stephen C., "Cherubini, (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zanobi Salvadore)" in Sadie, Stanley (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 1, A-D,  New York: MacMillan, 1994. .

Pranala luar

 
Entry for Luigi Cherubini in The Catholic Encyclopedia
Luigi Cherubini String Quartet Nos.1 & 3,  and String Quintet--sound-bites and discussion of works

Pemusik Prancis
Komponis Italia
Komandan Légion d'honneur
Pemusik klasik
Pemakaman Père-Lachaise
Tokoh dari Firenze