Abstract
It is possible that the contest was fruitless. At any rate, Napoleon himself decided to make a personal contribution to the commemoration of Hoche's death, The young general turned to Paisiello,3 then chapel master of the King of Sicily, and commissioned a funeral piece for Hoche. Paisiello obliged with an overtura o sinfonia-musica funebre composta . . Paisiello . . . all'occasione delle morte del fu General Hoche, etc. Napoleon sent the piece on to the Conservatory in Paris and asked the director, Sarrette, to rehearse the work for performance. Sarrette complied with Napoleon's patriotic wish upon the latter's return from Italy and also added Luigi Cherubini's beautiful Hoche music to
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