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Оглавление(1760–1842)
Lodoïska (1790)
Eliza (1794)
Médée (1797)
Les Deux Journées (1800)
Born in Florence to a musical father, Cherubini was a prodigy who began writing stage works in his teens, came to London in his twenties, and finally settled in Paris where he founded an opera company that somehow survived the traumas of the Revolution. A survivor himself, Cherubini perfected a genre of heroic rescue-opera with spoken dialogue, designed to please post-Revolutionary tastes after the old style of grand, static and completely sung Classical stories lost favour as a relic of the royal past. His influence in France was short-lived, but in Austro-Germany it was considerable and fed through to Beethoven’s rescue-opera Fidelio.
