Cherubini

American  

[ker-oo-bee-nee, ke-roo-bee-nee] / ˌkɛr ʊˈbi ni, ˌkɛ ruˈbi ni /

noun

1. Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore 1760–1842, Italian composer, especially of opera; in France after 1788.

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Cherubini British  

/ ˌkɛrʊˈbiːnɪ /

noun

1. ( Maria ) Luigi ( Carlo Zenobio Salvatore ) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.

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Example Sentences

Sporting director Cherubini - not among the indicted representatives - and Massimiliano Allegri, will be responsible for what happens on the playing side.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

A tourist at Père Lachaise, the cemetery in Paris where Cherubini is buried, is more likely to visit the neighboring grave of Chopin.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

The “Medea” being performed at the Met isn’t quite as Cherubini wrote it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

It includes four concertos by Mozart, which Mr. Tuckwell recorded several times over, two by Richard Strauss, and works by composers as disparate as Cherubini, Bruckner, Brahms, Ravel and Shostakovich.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2020

Luigi Cherubini was one such composer, born in Florence but able to flourish in Paris by tiptoeing deftly between opposing camps as political power changed hands before, during and after the Revolution.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall