Luigi Cherubini - Les Deux Journées - Ouverture

Picture: Ingres - Portrait of Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini, study Luigi Cherubini (8 or 14 September 1760 -- 15 March 1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries. Work: Les Deux Journées, ou Le Porteur d’eau, opéra comique in three acts, first performance 16 January 1800, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris. Libretto: Jean Nicolas Bouilly O