Great Italian And French Composers Palestrina to Massenet
Great Italian And French Composers Palestrina to Massenet
George T George Titus Ferris
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Somebody recognized Cherubini as a favorite of court circles, and, when he refused to lead their obscene music, the fatal cry, " The Royalist, the Royalist ! " buzzed through the crowd. At this critical moment another kidnapped player thrust a violin in Cherubini's hands and persuaded him to yield. So the two musicians marched all day amid the hoarse yells of the drunken revolution- ists. He was also enrolled in the National Guard, and obliged to accompany daily the march of the unfortunate thr...ongs who shed their blood under the axe of the guillotine. Cherubini would have fled from these horrible surroundings, but it was difficult to evade the vigilance of the French officials ; he had no money ; and he would not 146 GREAT ITALIAN AND FRENCH COMPOSERS. leave the beautiful C6cile Tourette, to whom he was affianced. One of the theatres opened during the revolu- tionary epoch was the Theatre Feydeau. The second opera performed was Cherubini's " Lodo'is- ka" (1791), at which he had been laboring for a long time, and which was received throughout Europe with the greatest enthusiasm and delight, not less in Germany than in France and Ilaly.
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