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Christoph Willibald Gluck
EN, IT, DE, FR cinema · 32 credits
Born
2 July 1714
Died
15 November 1787 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Erasbach, Germany
Also known as Christoph W. Gluck · Christoph-Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in 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 stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera.
Known for
Filmography
Les musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérial
Original Music Composer
The Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French Court
Original Music Composer
Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024
Writer, Original Music Composer
Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, Floirac
Original Music Composer
Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice
Original Music Composer
Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
Original Music Composer
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Original Music Composer
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
as Self - Composer, Original Music Composer
Orpheus and Eurydice
Compositor
Alceste
Compositor
The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Original Music Composer
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Original Music Composer
Orpheus and Eurydice
Original Music Composer
Orphée et Eurydice
Original Music Composer
Iphigénie en Aulide
Musician
Orfeo Ed Euridice
Original Music Composer
Kouzelný strom
1976
Kouzelný strom
Original Music Composer
Réjeanne Padovani
Original Music Composer
Moulage
Music