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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Cherubini, Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini
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• Cherubini Sandolini
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• Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini

A celebrated musical composer, born at Florence; naturalised in France; settled in Paris, the scene of his greatest triumphs; composed operas, of which the chief were "Iphigenia in Aulis," and "Les deux Journeés; or, The Water-Carrier," his masterpiece; also a number of sacred pieces and requiems, all of the highest merit; there is a portrait of him by Ingres in the Louvre, representing the Muse of his art extending her protecting hand over his head (1760-1842).