Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Luigi Cherubini, 1808 Dec. 25.

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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Baillot, Pierre Marie François de Sales, 1771-1842

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The air for these variations is the same as that for callno.: 984v, Air Russe Varie. The variation for solo violin are the same in both; the orchestra differs throughout.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Variations pour le violon / P. Baillot. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43300376 Composed 1807. Dedicated to "Son excellence Monsieur Vsévolode Andréevitch Vsévologsky."--Fleisher Collection. From the description...

Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842

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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was an Italian composer and music instructor. He was a child music prodigy who went on to write many popular operas as an adult. He moved to France in 1785, where he continued to live and work, successfully surviving the tumultuous regime changes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. After the end of the eighteenth century, Cherubini's operatic work was less successful and so he began composing church music. In 1822, he became director of the prestigious Conser...