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(884) Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobi Salvatore Cherubini was born in Florence on September 8, 1760, and died in Paris on March 15, 1842. He was the son of a musician at the Teatro della Pergola. At the age of six he began to learn the elements of music, and at nine he was put under Bartolomeo Felici and his son Alessandro for harmony and thorough-bass. He next studied under Pietro Bizzarri and Giuseppe Petrucci, who also gave him some notions on the art of singing. In 1773 a mass and an inter- mezzo by him were given in Florence, followed by other successful works, so that the grand-duke Leopold II. gave him a pension in 1778 to enable him to study under Giuseppe Sard in Bologna. He worked hard for four years under this great master, who trained him thoroughly in all the subtle- ties of Italian counterpoint. At last Sarti even let Cherubini write the minor parts in several of his operas. Indeed, Sard's scores at this period abound in passages by Cherubini. Up to 1784 Cherubini brought out opera after opera with almost invariable success in Florence, Leghorn, Rome, Venice, and Mantua. He then went to London, where two new operas of his failed; thence to Paris, where he meant to settle, but was soon called to Turin, where his Ifigenia in Aulide met with great success. In 1787 he went back to London, and was made composer to the King. In 1788 he went to Paris, where he brought out his first French opera, Demophon, but without success, Johann Christoph Vogel's opera on the same subject distracting public attention from it. But, with Demophon, Cherubini entered upon his second manner, the highly finished, elaborate, and learned style by which he is now universally known. He, however, went back to his earlier, Italian manner for a time, writing several Italian operas, until, with Lodo'iska^ brought out in 1791, he completed and per- Alb/iie FOR BRAIN-WORKERS, THE WEAK AND DEBILITATED. 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Lodoiska was followed by F/isa, Medee, and les deux Journees (better known in America by its German title, Der Wassertrdger), Cherubini's masterpiece. In 1805 Cherubini went to Vienna, where he wrote and produced his Faniska with overwhelming success, Haydn and Beethoven proclaiming him to be the " first dra- matic composer of the time." Some years later it was even considered utterly ridiculous when some persons ventured to predict that Beethoven's Fidelio would one day be considered "equal" to Cherubini's Faniska. Cherubini returned to Paris after the occupation of Vienna by the French. But Napoleon never favored him, and he soon retired to the country house of the prince de Chimay, where he devoted himself for a time to the study of botany. He returned, however, to composition after a while, devoting the remainder of his life to writing for the church. On the restoration of the House of Bourbon he went back to Paris, where he occupied several important government positions, the most noteworthy of which was his directorship of the Conservatoire from 1822 to his death. Cherubini was the last truly great contrapuntist of the so-called " beauti- " ful Neapolitan school, founded by Aiessandro Scarlatti ; he was also equally at ease in the stricter a cappella style of the so-called " great Roman school of the sixteenth century, of which Palestrina was the shining light. His greatest works undoubtedly belong to his church music ; but *For many years this composer's name was universally known as Etienne-Henri; the mistake in his middle_ name was discovered and rectified over half a century after his death. BENEFIT CONCERT By Pupils of the New England Conservatory of Music, CARL FAELTEN, Director. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF Mrs. H. H. A. Beach of Boston. Mrs. Henry L. Higginson of Boston. Mrs. Ole Bull of Cambridge. 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