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Cherubini - The Six String Quartets  | Brilliant Classics 93891

Cherubini - The Six String Quartets

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93891

Barcode: 5028421938912

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th March 2009

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Luigi Cherubini was one of the most influential composers at the end of the 18th century and the early 19th. An Italian who dominated the Paris Opera, his works Lodoïska, Medée, Les Deux Journées and Eliza exerted an influence on composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner. Even Brahms, although not himself an opera composer, was influenced by Cherubini.

He was a visionary, and in places the music of Medée (1797) foreshadows Wagner. The ‘rescue’ operas mentioned above provided the model for Beethoven’s Fidelio of 1805. Beethoven was impressed by Cherubini’s 'Requiem in C minor', and spoke of composing a Requiem after studying the score – sadly this came to nothing.

For the Melos Quartett of Stuttgart’s performances, both in care of preparation and in vigour and perception of execution, praise cannot be too high. This is an important issue, demonstrating a too little-known aspect of a composer whose work is slowly coming to be better valued.’ - Gramophone

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