Question: Both Gaetano Donizetti and Luigi Cherubini were regarded as Beethovens greatest contemporaries?

<P0-S0> The Overture in G major by Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) is an orchestral work written for concert use in early 1815. <P0-S1>  It is unusual among Cherubini's overtures in that his other, better known overtures (such as those to "Anacreon", "Médée", "Les deux journées" and "Ali Baba"), were intended to introduce stage works. <P0-S2>  Although born in Italy Cherubini had been living in France since 1784, and had earned world fame through a series of operas composed for the Paris stage. <P0-S3>  In the first decade of the nineteenth century the vogue for his dramatic works began to wane, and he turned increasingly to sacred music. <SEP> <P1-S0> Pauline Duchambge née de Montet (1778 – 23 April 1858) was a French Creole pianist, singer, and composer. <P1-S1>  Duchambge also composed music to texts and romances of other female authors such as Mme Amble Tastu and Mme Emile De Girardin. <P1-S2>  Eleven of Duchambge's individual songs and albums of songs were published between 1827 and 1841 by some of the leading Parisian publishers: Jean Antoine Meissonnier, Jacques-Joseph Frey, A. Petibon, and Ignace Pleyel. <P1-S3>  She was taken to Paris, where she received a convent education and studied the piano from composer and author Jean Baptiste Desormery, son of the famous comic opera actor and composer Léopold-Bastien Desormery. <P1-S4>  In 1798 at the age of 20, she lost both her parents and with them the family fortune. <P1-S5>  Pauline composed and performed as a singer and a pianist. <P1-S6>  but a life full of troubles, illusions, deceptions, repentance, discouragements…. " <P1-S7>  Their friendship is documented by a lengthy correspondence and a number of songs by Duchambge on Debordes-Valmore’s texts including L’adieu tout bas, La fiancée del marin, Je pense à lui, La jeune Châtelaine, Rêve du mousse, La sincère and La valse et l’automne. <P1-S8>  It was after these events that Duchamge musical education began in earnest. <P1-S9>  Her works reached a German audience through the Berlin publisher Maurice Schlesinger and the Schott firm in Mainz. <P1-S10>  Pauline Duchambge wrote over three hundred romances, a very popular genre in the nineteenth century. <P1-S11>  She also studied piano and composition with Jan Ladislav Dussek. <P1-S12>  She studied harmony and composition with Daniel Auber and with Luigi Cherubini, who wrote several compositions for her. <P1-S13>  She commented: "Love, it is life! <P1-S14>  Duchambge had a difficult life, struggling with poverty, delicate health, and the disenchantments of love; her music expresses her emotions. <SEP> <P2-S0>  His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. <P2-S1> Luigi Cherubini (] ; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. <P2-S2>  Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries. <SEP> <P3-S0>  Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the "bel canto" opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. <P3-S1> Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (] ; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer. <P3-S2>  Donizetti's close association with the bel canto style was undoubtedly an influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).