Marche funèbre
Cherubini’s "Marche funèbre" is in the tradition of the funeral music of the French Revolution. The work was composed in 1820 on the occasion of the solemn funeral services for Charles Ferdinand of Bourbon, the Duke of Berry, who was the victim of an assassination when leaving the Paris Opera. In the piece the regular, penetrating beat of the tam tams and the drum roll which follows, the dark-sounding colors and the painful dissonances leave their mark on the funeral march, which suggests that for a performance this work could be combined with either of Cherubini’s settings of the Requiem text
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Composer
Luigi Cherubini
| 1760-1842Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Maria Cherubini (1760–1842) was an Italian composer. His main works include 15 Italian and 14 French operas. After the emergence of Rossini's operas, his works fell out of fashion for a long time, but have recently been rediscovered. Personal details
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Editor
Oliver Schwarz-Roosmann
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Cherubinis 1820 uraufgeführte Marche funèbre ist ein zweifelsohne effektvolles Werk einer Epoche, in der Pomp noch zur ungehinderten Entfaltung kam. [...] Der Herausgeber der vorbildlichen Edition legt eine Kombination mit einem der beiden Requien Cherubinis nahe, eine nachvollziehbare und sinnvolle Wahl.
Musica Sacra, 3/2011
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