Tags: Classical Music Composition.
The Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus was written by Luigi Cherubini in 1815 and premiered 21 January 1816 at a commemoration service for Louis XVI of France. Cherubini’s setting of the requiem was considered by Beethoven to be superior to Mozart’s.[citation needed]Ludwig van Beethoven listened to Cherubini’s operas with the keenest attention (the evidence is there in Fidelio) and declared that if ever he should write a Requiem his model would be Cherubini’s C minor setting.