Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (2 July 1714 - 15 November 1787) was a Germ… Read Full Bio ↴Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (2 July 1714 - 15 November 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for Orfeo ed Euridice. Gluck's operatic reforms, eliminating all that was undramatic, were a turning point in the history of the medium.
Gluck's musical legacy was around 35 complete operas, together with numerous ballets and instrumental works. His reforms influenced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, particularly his opera Idomeneo (1781). Gluck left behind a flourishing school of disciples in Paris, who would dominate the French stage throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. As well as Antonio Salieri, they included Antonio Sacchini, Luigi Cherubini, Étienne Méhul and Gaspare Spontini. Gluck's greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition.
Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.
(I understand Christoph Gluck was the music tutor of "Princess" Marie-Antoinette, during her childhood in Vienna, at the court of her mother - Empress Marie-Therese.
Gluck's musical legacy was around 35 complete operas, together with numerous ballets and instrumental works. His reforms influenced Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, particularly his opera Idomeneo (1781). Gluck left behind a flourishing school of disciples in Paris, who would dominate the French stage throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. As well as Antonio Salieri, they included Antonio Sacchini, Luigi Cherubini, Étienne Méhul and Gaspare Spontini. Gluck's greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition.
Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.
(I understand Christoph Gluck was the music tutor of "Princess" Marie-Antoinette, during her childhood in Vienna, at the court of her mother - Empress Marie-Therese.
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Paride ed Elena, Wq. 39: O del mio dolce ardor O del mio dolce ardor bramato oggetto bramato oggetto l'aura…
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Duncan Richardson
Gluck's music is sadly neglected. His greatest music is marked by a measured dignity that that does not offer easy entertainment for audiences seeking instant gratification. A neo-classicist at heart he deplored the florid excessess and amourous intrigues of conventional 18th C. opera.
Andrea Alberto Belloli
Adoro questa Ouverture... che ascolto con dolce compiacimento sin da quando avevo 14 anni!
Miguel Cabello
Son tan bellas las obertura de Gluck.
yossi peles
Excellent! Please, upload more music by this amazing tone-poet! What a pity that all those silly admirers of the so-called 'great' composers (Bach & co.) know nothing about him except "Orfeo".
William Stephens
How on earth can you justify calling Bach a "*so-called* 'great'" composer?
Yossi Peles
William Stephens for me there are no "great" composers (and no "great" painters, sculptors, poets etc. as well). I like "Bach & co." very much; l've played a lot of their music and listened eagerly to almost all their works (If you don't mind, I once knew by heart all the 48 preludes and fugues
of Bach's Well-Tempered Keyboard-Instrument). But I deeply detest the silly, wicked, perverse cult of their "greatness", especially when this very "greatness" overshadows others' "greatness", or whatever you name it.
Giusi Raspaglio
L'associazione culturale Diapente mette in scena l'Orfeo ed Euridice di Gluck, nella versione originale di Vienna del 1762. La rappresentazione si terrà al Teatro Orione di Roma il 17 novembre 2014. L'orchestra barocca suonerà copie di strumenti antichi. Orchestra e Coro saranno diretti dal Maestro concertatore al cembalo e Direttore Lucio Ivaldi. Per info e prenotazioni visitare il sito www.diapente.it
Yigit Liselotte
Die Uraufführung von Armide ,,DRAMA héroìque in 5 Akte" war am 23.September 1777
an der Acadèmie Roiale de musique in Paris.Großartig !!!
Helmut Gehrmann
Die Ouverture repräsentiert "Feierlichkeit an Sich!"
Christian Wouters
There is sth strange with Gluck. Looking at his scores they appear clumsy and banal when compared to say Mozart or Haydn, but in actual performance they work mostly very well.Like this C major overture.