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Luigi Cherubini

1760 - 1842

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Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( KERR-uu-BEE-nee; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi keruˈbiːni]; 8 or 14 September 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. Cherubini's operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Cherubini is the 86th most popular composer (up from 88th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Italy (down from 397th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Composer.

Luigi Cherubini is most famous for his operas. He was a composer and a conductor.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Luigi Cherubini ranks 86 out of 1,451. Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Josquin des Prez, Alban Berg, Leoš Janáček, Johann Pachelbel, and Heinrich Schütz. After him are Luigi Boccherini, John Williams, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Olivier Messiaen, Carl Czerny, and Nino Rota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Luigi Cherubini ranks 4. Before him are Hokusai, Pope Leo XII, and Henri de Saint-Simon. After him are Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, Akbar II, Camille Desmoulins, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Among people deceased in 1842, Luigi Cherubini ranks 3. Before him are Stendhal, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. After him are Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Robert Smith, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Cherubini ranks 435 out of 5,161. Before him are Camillo Golgi (1843), Pope Urban I (222), Pope Lando (900), Giovanni Battista Re (1934), Pope Zachary (679), and Pope Adeodatus II (610). After him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Pope Sergius II (800), Pope Anastasius III (890), Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751), Conrad IV of Germany (1228), and Amadeo I of Spain (1845).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Luigi Cherubini ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Guido of Arezzo (991), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660). After him are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Nino Rota (1911), Jacopo Peri (1561), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857), Pietro Mascagni (1863), and Domenico Cimarosa (1749).

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