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Luigi Cherubini - Symphony in D major, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) I. Largo – Allegro – 00:00 II. Larghetto cantabile – 12:51 III. Minuetto. Allegro non tanto – 22:30 IV. Allegro assai – 27:07 Luigi Cherubini (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 of his contemporaries. His operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini. In 1785 he made an excursion to Paris with his friend the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, who presented him to Marie Antoinette and Parisian society. Except for a brief return trip to London and to Turin, Cherubini spent the rest of his life in France. Cherubini adopted the French version of his name, Marie-Louis-Charles-Zénobi-Salvador Cherubini; this appears in all extant documents that show his full name after 1790. In 1822, Cherubini became director of the
