Canon
Where to start with Cherubini
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageMédée — Opera
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VocalRequiem Mass no. 1 in C minor
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Chamber6 Pas redoublés and 2 marches for Prussian Regiment, for trumpet, 3 horns and trombone
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KeyboardCaprice ou etude, for piano
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OrchestralFuneral March
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Vocal11 Pieces for Royal Chapel, for chorus and orchestra
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VocalAmphion, cantata
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StageAnacréon ou L'amour fugitif
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VocalAve Maria
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VocalChant sur la mort de Haydn, for soprano, 2 tenors and orchestra
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VocalChant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn, for soprano, 2 tenors, and orchestra
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VocalCirce, cantata
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VocalClytemnestre, cantata
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VocalDuetto 2: La mia Fille, il mio bel foco, for 2 voices
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VocalDuetto 3: Dite almeno, amiche fronde, for 2 voices
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Cherubini's catalogueMost Popular
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Requiem in C minor
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String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat
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Médée (opera)
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Lodoïska (opera overture)
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Symphony in D major
Most Acclaimed
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Requiem in C minor
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Requiem in D minor (for male voices)
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Médée
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String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
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Lodoïska
Most Weird
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Ali Baba (opera)his last opera — written age 67; orientalist fantasy
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Anacréon (overture)ballet overture — used as a concert piece
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Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydnwritten when Haydn was rumored dead; he survived and the piece was embarrassingly premature
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Requiem in D minorthe second requiem — male voices only; Brahms preferred it to the C minor
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String Quartet No. 6 in A majorhis most harmonically advanced
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 45
- Stage
- Médée — Opera
- Anacréon ou L'amour fugitif
- Démophoon
- Faniska — Opera
- Les Abencérages ou Létendard de Grenade
- Les Deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau — Opera
- Lo sposo di tre, marito di nessuna
- Lodoïska
- Vocal
- Requiem Mass no. 1 in C minor
- 11 Pieces for Royal Chapel, for chorus and orchestra
- Amphion, cantata
- Ave Maria
- Chant sur la mort de Haydn, for soprano, 2 tenors and orchestra
- Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn, for soprano, 2 tenors, and orchestra
- Circe, cantata
- Clytemnestre, cantata
- Duetto 2: La mia Fille, il mio bel foco, for 2 voices
- Duetto 3: Dite almeno, amiche fronde, for 2 voices
- Duetto 4: Ahi, ch'e il suon del rio che frange, for 2 voices
- Hymne et march funébre, for chorus and orchestra
- Hymne à la Victoire, for 4 voices
- In Paradisum, antiphon for chorus
- La mort de Mirabeau, cantata
- Mass no. 10 in B flat major, for chorus, "Missa Solemnis"
- Mass no. 11 in A major, for chorus and orchestra, "For the Coronation of Charles X"
- Mass no. 2 in D minor, "Messe Messe Solemnis"
- Requiem Mass no. 2 in D minor
- Requiem no. 1, for chorus and orchestra in C minor
- Sciant gentes
- Solitario bosco ombroso, nocturne for 2 voices and piano
- Chamber
- 6 Pas redoublés and 2 marches for Prussian Regiment, for trumpet, 3 horns and trombone
- Horn Sonata no. 1 in F
- Horn Sonata no. 2 in F
- Horn Sonata in F
- String Quartet no. 1 in E flat major
- String Quartet no. 2 in C
- String Quartet no. 3 in D minor
- String Quartet no. 4 in E
- String Quartet no. 5 in F
- String Quartet no. 6 in A minor
- Keyboard
- Caprice ou etude, for piano
- Sonata for 2 Organs
- Orchestral
- Funeral March
- Sonata no. 2 in F for Horn and Strings
- Symphony in D