Cherubini: Requiem & Marche funèbre

Featuring

Matthew Best
Corydon Orchestra
Corydon Singers
Luigi Cherubini

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Composer Biography

After a period of waning popularity and depression, Cherubini withdrew from music to pursue botany and painting, before returning to composition in 1808.

Notable Performances

Beethoven, who greatly admired Cherubini's Requiem in C minor, requested it be performed at his own funeral in 1827.

Composer Biography

Luigi Cherubini, the composer, settled in Paris at age twenty-seven and remained there until his death in 1842, becoming an influential figure in French musical life.

Composition History

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor was commissioned by the government in 1815 to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI.

Composition History

Cherubini's opera Lodoïska was performed over two hundred successive times, demonstrating his early success as an operatic composer.

Compositional Technique

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor omits flutes and adds a tam-tam to the conventional orchestra, and notably dispenses with soloists to avoid operatic associations.

Critical Reception

Cherubini, the composer, was called 'Europe's foremost dramatic composer' by Beethoven and 'the greatest living composer' by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Berlioz.