Christoph gluck biography
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
German opera composer (1714–1787)
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Christoph Willibald Gluck | |
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Gluck acting his clavichord (1775) | |
| Born | (1714-07-02)2 July 1714 Erasbach, Topmost Palatinate |
| Died | 15 Nov 1787(1787-11-15) (aged 73) Vienna |
| Works | List of compositions |
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Mozart &
Material Culture
Leopold Mozart attended a performance of Orfeo in Vienna on 10 October 1762 and Mozart attended a performance of Alceste at Schönbrunn on 25 November 1781. Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem SerailK384 was performed at Gluck’s request on 6 August 1782 and on 11 March 1783 Gluck attended the Burgtheater concert of Mozart’s sister-in-law, Aloysia Lange, at which Mozart performed the concerto K175+382 and Aloysia sang the aria ‘Alcandro, lo confesso-Non so d’onde viene’ K294; the Langes and the Mozarts had dinner with Gluck on 16 March. In December 1787 Mozart was appointed k.k. Kammermusikus, de facto an honorary appointment made after Gluck’s death. Several works by Mozart and his father have direct links with Gluck: Leopold arranged four dances from Gluck’s Don Juan sometime during the 1760s or 1770s (LMV XVI:2); about 1773-1775 father and son arranged numbers from Gluck’s Paride ed Elena for 2 flutes, 3 trumpets in C, 2 trumpets in D and 4 timpani in C, G, D and A (K187 and LMV VI:11); in 1783 Mozart arranged for keyboard the opening of ‘Non vi turbate, no’ K236 from Gluck’s Alceste, presumably intended for a set of variations; and at his 23 March 1783 Burgtheater concert, he improvised variations on ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455
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Biography
Christoph Willibald Gluck was the epitome of the 18th-century composer, working at the service of any court that might employ him, and writing music that was never less than well-mannered. But he was also that rare thing, an artist who managed to absorb and transcend the spirit of his age. The ‘reform’ operas that Gluck composed from the 1760s reflect the ideals of the late Enlightenment, and Orfeo ed Euridice can be counted amongst the greatest of musical works for the stage. Gluck was born in what is now Bavaria. His father Alexander Johannes belonged to a dynasty of foresters and hoped his first surviving son would follow in his footsteps. From an early age it was woodwind more than woodland that excited the younger Gluck. He escaped first to Prague then to Italy, where he learnt his musical craft studying in Milan with the composer GB Sammartini. Within four years Gluck had begun to write Artaserse, based on a libretto by the poet Metastasio and premiered in 1741, the first of approximately 35 full-length operas. The composer, it seemed, had embarked upon a traditional career making opera seria from a set of pre-existing libretti. After Italy, he travelled through Europe looking for work. He visited London, Dresden, Vienna and Prague before settling in Vienna in