Luigi Cherubini has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 18 November 2021. Songs played include Ave Maria and Concerto Grosso In E Minor, Op. 3, No. 3.

Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, it was greatly admired in his time. Beethoven regarded him as the greatest of his contemporaries.

Cherubini was born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini on 14th September 1760 in Florence. His instruction in music began at the age of six with his father, himself a musician. By…