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===== Chiefly compiled from the French of Mons. François-Joseph Fétis ===== | ===== Chiefly compiled from the French of Mons. François-Joseph Fétis ===== | ||
- | This admirable composer was born at Florence, on the 8th Sept., 1760, and he received the baptismal name of Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvador Cherubini. He mastered the first elements of music before he was six years old. At the age of nine, he had lessons of harmony and accompaniment from Bartolomeo Felici and his son Alessandro. On the death of these two masters, he obtained instruction from Pietro Bizzari and Guiseppe Castrucci, who promoted his studies in composition, | + | {{: |
The progress he made was so rapid, that as early at 1773, before he had completed his thirteenth year, there was a solemn mass of his performed at Florence. This work was followed by several others, both sacred and secular; and the public greeted with warm applause those early productions of a genius already remarkable. The grand duke of Tuscany, Leopold II. -- a prince distinguished no less by his enlightened taste for the fine arts, than by his mild and benevolent rule -- denoted his estimate of young Cherubini' | The progress he made was so rapid, that as early at 1773, before he had completed his thirteenth year, there was a solemn mass of his performed at Florence. This work was followed by several others, both sacred and secular; and the public greeted with warm applause those early productions of a genius already remarkable. The grand duke of Tuscany, Leopold II. -- a prince distinguished no less by his enlightened taste for the fine arts, than by his mild and benevolent rule -- denoted his estimate of young Cherubini' |