For ten points, name this Italian classical era composer who spent most of his life working in France, where he directed the Paris Conservatoire and produced a noted Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus as well as the opera Medee.
This man's early compositions include the intermezzo Il Giocatore and a cantata written for Duke Leopold of Tuscany, La pubblica felicitá. He was incorrectly informed of Haydn's death, leading to the premature composition of a Chant sur la mort de Haydn. He composed a Hymn to Spring for the Philharmonic Society of London, and he collaborated with Jean-Nicolas Bouilly to compose the opera Les deux journeés. Beethoven considered another of his works to be superior to Mozart's setting of the same text. That work was written in memory of Louis XVI and one of his operas was drawn from texts by both Euripides and Corneille. For ten points, name this Italian classical era composer who spent most of his life working in France, where he directed the Paris Conservatoire and produced a noted Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus as well as the opera Medee.
This man's early compositions include the intermezzo Il Giocatore and a cantata written for Duke Leopold of Tuscany, La pubblica felicitá.
{Luigi Cherubini}