Christoph Willibald Gluck
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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.
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movieLes musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérial
2025
Original Music Composer
movieThe Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French Court
2025
Original Music Composer
movieIphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024
2024
Original Music Composer
movieGluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, Floirac
2023
Original Music Composer
movieGluck - Orphée et Eurydice
2018
Original Music Composer
movieGluck: Orphée et Euridice
2018
Original Music Composer
movieGluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
2016
Original Music Composer
movieGluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2014
Original Music Composer
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
2011
Original Music Composer
movieGluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2009
Original Music Composer
movieOrpheus and Eurydice
2008
Original Music Composer
movieOrphée et Eurydice
2003
Original Music Composer
movieIphigénie en Aulide
2002
Musician
movieOrfeo Ed Euridice
1991
Original Music Composer
movieThe Refuge
1978
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Kouzelný strom
1976
Original Music Composer
movieRéjeanne Padovani
1973
Original Music Composer
movieMoulage
1971
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movieGluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
2014
Self - Composer
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movieOrpheus and Eurydice
2014
Compositor