Christoph Willibald Gluck, 1775, By Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (1714 – 1787) composer of Italian and French opera

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Christoph Willibald Gluck, 1775 Joseph-Siffred Duplessis Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia,[1] both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stra

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