Conducted by Peter Montgomery
Frank Capper (baritone)
CHERUBINI'S grasp of contrapuntal technique was so profound as probably never to have been equalled since his day. As a child, when he should have been at school, and probably was, he was writing masses, oratorios, cantatas, and all kinds of works. He wrote his first opera at eighteen, and thereafter wrote little else than operatic music.
Scant justice has been done to this very gifted man, but it must be confessed that his attitude to the beautiful in music, which he deliberately sacrificed to technique and grammatical purity, did not endear him to the operatic public, at least after his death. Beethoven, however, thought very highly of his music, and was, to some extent, influenced by it.
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