In 1843, Cécile Cherubini (1773–1864), the composer’s widow, commissioned Auguste Bottée de Toulmon (1797–1850) to compile a sales catalog of her husband’s estate. Toulmon used a list, now lost, which Cherubini himself had compiled of his own compositions. However, this list contained only the ‘best’ works, and for each of these only the ‘best’ source, i.e. the complete score, was listed. This meant that Toulmon’s catalog was by no means a catalog of works in the modern sense. Subsequent attempts to compile a catalog of works (Bellasis 1874, Lesure/Sartori 1962) are largely based on Toulmon’s publication. Each new volume of the Luigi Cherubini Complete Works (published by Anton J. Benjamin / Simrock, Berlin) under the direction of Helen Geyer and the International Cherubini Society now brings decisive progress in source knowledge with regard to a catalog of works for all genres of composition, and thus a basis for a comprehensive catalog of works.

As part of the project Luigi Cherubini and the teaching of composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a comprehensive training practice (ca. 1810-1840), a catalog of Cherubini’s pedagogical and theoretical works was compiled between 2021 and 2025. The project was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (No. 200698). This partial catalog includes works such as solfège and basso continuo exercises, which are not usually considered ‘compositions’ but are nevertheless of great importance in understanding Cherubini’s approach to composition and the teaching of music theory.

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