In October, 2008, the changed voices performed Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in D Minor for men's chorus in the Basel Münster and in the music hall of Stadtcasino Basel ; the concert was rounded out by César Franck's Psalm 150 and Georges Bizet's Te Deum.

He played the first performance of Luigi Cherubini's " Requiem " in E minor.

Cherubini's early opera serias used libretti by Apostolo Zeno, Metastasio ( Pietro Trapassi ), and others that adhered closely to standard dramatic conventions.

This was followed by Eliza ( 1794 ), set in the Swiss Alps, and Médée ( 1797 ), Cherubini's best-known work.

Les abencérages ( 1813 ), an heroic drama set in Spain during the last days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada, was Cherubini's attempt to compete with Spontini's La Vestale ; it garnered critical praise but few performances.

However in 1875 Carl Rosa tempted him back to the stage for a season at the Princess's Theatre, London, in which he played in Le nozze di Figaro, Il trovatore, The Siege of Rochelle ( as Michel ), Cherubini's The Water Carrier ( Mikelì ) and The Porter of Havre ( Martin ).

These include Spontini's La vestale ( 1807 ) and Fernand Cortez ( 1809, revised 1817 ), Cherubini's Les Abencérages ( 1813 ), and Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe ( 1827 ) and Moïse et Pharaon ( 1828 ).

The works of Méhul ( for example Stratonice, 1792 ; Ariodant, 1799 ), Cherubini ( Lodoiska, 1791 ; Médée, 1797 ; Les deux journées, 1800 ) and Le Sueur ( La caverne, 1793 ) in particular show the influence of serious French opera, especially Gluck, and a willingness to take on previously taboo subjects ( e. g. incest in Méhul's Mélidore et Phrosine, 1794 ; infanticide in Cherubini's famous Médée ).

Its successes included productions of Cherubini's Les deux journées ( 1875 ), The Flying Dutchman ( 1876 ), with Santley in the title role, the first English-language production of Carmen ( 1879 ), starring Selina Dolaro in the title role and Durward Lely as Don José, Rienzi ( 1879 ), Lohengrin ( 1880 ) and Tannhäuser ( 1882 ).

Having left the conservatoire, Offenbach was free from the stern academicism of Cherubini's curriculum, but as the biographer James Harding writes, " he was free, also, to starve.

Cherubini's opera-ballet Anacréon was an outright failure and most stage works after it did not achieve success.

There are many allusions to Cherubini's personal irritability among his contemporaries ; Adolphe Adam wrote, " some maintain his temper was very even, because he was always angry.

During the 2011 season Cherubini's Medea was presented.

But several other promised productions either did not occur ( Macbeth, Cherubini's Les Deux Journees, Rossini's Tancredi ) or the baritone role in them was given to another artist.

François-Benoît Hoffman ( 11 July 1760 – 25 April 1828 ) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini ( most notably Cherubini's Médée, 1797 ).

The most typical work of the genre was Luigi Cherubini's Médée ( 1797 ).

Cherubini's time in Vienna was generally unhappy, but he did have the opportunity to meet Beethoven.

Other opera librettos followed, including Spontini's Fernand Cortez and Cherubini's Abencérages, but none obtained so great a success.

* Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best-known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea.

Regardless of the animosity between the two composers, Berlioz learned from and admired Cherubini's music, such as the requiem.

* January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées (" The Water Carrier "), debuts in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.

Title page of the first edition of Cherubini's Médée ( Cherubini ) | Médée, full score, 1797.

Cherubini's music began to show more originality and daring.

Cherubini's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a bas relief by Augustin Dumont.

Some critics, such as Basil Deane, maintain that Berlioz's depiction has distorted Cherubini's image with posterity.

Wilhelm Altmann, writing in his Handbuch für Streichquartettspieler ( Handbook for String Quartet Players ) about Cherubini's six string quartets, states that they are first rate and regarded Nos.

Also in 1989, Fleming made her debut with the New York City Opera as Mimi in La Bohème and her debut with The Royal Opera, London, as Dirce in Cherubini's Médée.

She sang in Cherubini's Médée in Dallas in 1967 and in Kansas City in 1968.

* Requiem in C-minor – Luigi Cherubini

* The Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus by Luigi Cherubini was written in 1816, in memory of Louis XVI.

* Requiem in C minor for Mixed Chorus ( 1816 ) in memory of Louis XVI

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

A German Requiem was partially inspired by his mother's death in 1865 ( at which time he composed a funeral march that was to become the basis of Part Two, Denn alles Fleisch ), but it also incorporates material from a symphony which he started in 1854 but abandoned following Schumann's suicide attempt.

The most important works of the Paris period were Neue Gedichte ( New Poems ) ( 1907 ), Der Neuen Gedichte Anderer Teil ( Another Part of the New Poems ) ( 1908 ), the two " Requiem " poems ( 1909 ), and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, started in 1904 and completed in January 1910.

The early ' 90s saw groups like After Crying from Hungary release Overground Music ( 1990 ), Quaterna Requiem from Brazil release Velha Gravura ( 1990 ), Änglagård from Sweden release Hybris ( 1992 ) and Isildurs Bane, also from Sweden, release The Voyage-A Trip To Elsewhere ( 1992 ).

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

He played a Greek resistance fighter in The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), an aging boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight, and the Bedouin shaikh Auda abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia ( both 1962 ).

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

The foremost of these are the Symphonie fantastique ( 1830 ), Harold en Italie ( 1834 ), the Grande messe des morts ( Requiem ) ( 1837 ) and Roméo et Juliette ( 1839 ).

Deacons may preside at funeral rites not involving a Mass ( e. g., the final commendation at the gravesite or the reception of the body at a service in the funeral home ), and may assist the priest at the Requiem Mass.

: Requiem for a Divided Nation ( 1992 ), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-semitism, generated considerable controversy.

: Requiem for a Divided Country, Richler had commented approvingly on Esther Delisle's history, The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 ( 1992 ), about Canada and particularly Quebec attitudes in the decade before the start of World War II.

Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem ( 1935 – 40 ), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.

Beg vremeni ( The flight of time ), collected works 1909 – 1965, published in 1965, was the most complete volume of her works in her lifetime, though the long damning poem Requiem, condemning the Stalinist purges, was conspicuously absent.