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CHERUBINI, ka-roo-bene, Maria Luid Carlo Zenobi Salvatore, Italian composer: b. Florence, 14 Sept. 1760; d. Paris, 15 March 1842. In 1773 he produced a mass, which, with other of his compositions, attracted the atten tion of the Grand Duke Leopold, who enabled him to become a pupil of Sarti of Bologna., under whom he studied from 1778 to 1782. As early as 1780 he produced his first opera,

brated Mass in F for three voices, his grand (Requiem,' his