Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Author of Orfeo ed Euridice [sound recording]
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Works by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alceste [programme book] 5 copies
Denyce Graves - Voce di Donna 5 copies
Echo et Narcisse 4 copies
Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits from "Orpheus" by C.W. Gluck arranged for Flute and Piano by Robert Cavally (1985) 4 copies
Orfeo ed Euridice [programme book] 4 copies
Don Juan [sound recording] — Composer — 4 copies
Los Clásicos de la Ópera 400 años : Gluck : Orfeo ed Euridice [sound recording + libretto] (2007) 3 copies
Les Chinoises [sound recording] — Composer — 3 copies
De Profundis 2 copies
La Corona [sound recording] 2 copies
La Divina 2 2 copies
Le Cinesi 2 copies
Opera Passion 2 2 copies
Orfeo y Eurídice 2 copies
Austrian Royal Court Composers: Dittersdorf, Salieri, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart [sound recording] (1992) — Composer — 2 copies
Philémon et Baucis [sound recording] 2 copies
Spectacular classics: Baroque: Albinoni, Bach, Boccerini , Gluck, Pachelbel, Vivaldi [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Baker 1 copy
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 copy
Iphigénie en Tauride 1 copy
Orphée et Eurydice. 1 copy
La Corona - La Danza 1 copy
Il Parnaso confuso 1 copy
BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 19 : A night at the opera [sound recording] by BBC Radio 3 (2021) — Composer — 1 copy
Revolution [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Le Mariage du Diable 1 copy
Orfeo ed Euridice [us] 1 copy
Iphigénie en Tauride [us] 1 copy
Orfeo ed Euridice [rm] 1 copy
Armide [de] 1 copy
Orphée et Eurydice [it] 1 copy
42- MELODIE 1 copy
Herkules und Hebe 1 copy
iphigenie en aulide - tape 2 1 copy
Alceste 1 copy
Lovely Fields so Gentle 1 copy
Opera Arias: Hasse - Händel - Gluck - Mozart - Rossini - Donizetti [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Gavotte from Don Juan 1 copy
Orfeo Ed Euridice Hts 1 copy
Sleep, My Little Dove 1 copy
Beethoven : Fidelio + Donizetti : L'Elisir D'Amore + Giordano : Andrea Chénier + Massenet : Manon + Puccini : La Boheme + Verdi : La Traviata [sound recording] (2007) — Composer — 1 copy
Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: for Medium High Voice [sheet music] — Composer — 1 copy
The Instruments of Classical Music: Complete Collection [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Le Belle Immagini [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Gluck: Opera Arias 1 copy
Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Air from "Orpheus" 1 copy
March from Alceste 1 copy
Gluck - Orphee et Eurydice 1 copy
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice - Recorded live at the Bavarian State Opera (2013) 1 copy
Der Zauberbaum 1 copy
Melody from Orpheus 1 copy
Iphigénie en Tauride [Film] 1 copy
Air de Ballet from the Opera "Alceste" — Composer — 1 copy
Il parnaso confuso 1 copy
Alceste overture 1 copy
Écho et Narcisse 1 copy
La Rencontre imprévue (Vocal Score) — Composer — 1 copy
Demofoonte [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Orphée et Eurydice - Gardiner / Kožená / Bender / Petibon [video recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Philémon & Baucis [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Alceste [box] 1 copy
Associated Works
Albinoni: Adagio / Pachelbel: Canon / Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / works by Bach, Boyce, Gluck, Purcell, Zipoli — Composer — 2 copies
Madame Schumann [sound recording] — Composer — 2 copies
Can Can: Berühmte Tänze & Ballettszenen [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Meditation from Thaïs / The Albinoni Adagio / Judex / Pavane / Dance of the Blessed Spirits / Three Nocturnes [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
The Pupils of Leschetizky [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Rivales [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Prima Donna Volume 3: Great Soprano Arias from Gluck to Poulenc [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Spectacular classics: Relax with the classics volume 1: Albinoni, Bach, Boccherini, Chopin, Debussy, Elgar, Gluck, Mozart, Tchaikovsky [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Classical WETA Adagio: Volume Two — Composer — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald
- Legal name
- Ritter von Gluck, Christoph Willibald
- Birthdate
- 1714-07-02
- Date of death
- 1787-11-15
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- composer
- Awards and honors
- Knight of the Golden Spur
- Nationality
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire
- Places of residence
- Reichstadt, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Erasbach, Electorate of Bavaria
Oberkreibitz, Holy Roman Empire
Eisenburg, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (show all 8)
Milan, Holy Roman Empire
London, England - Place of death
- Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
- Associated Place (for map)
- Holy Roman Empire
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Reviews
I enjoy this opera, although there are really only a couple of truly stunning moments. Still, it's interesting, and has a surprisingly happy ending (particularly surprising it you're familiar with the original myth).
One of the first composers to really present dramatically on the operatic stage - this is probably one of the best operas upto the time and a good performance can be really hair-raisingly intense.
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Statistics
- Works
- 181
- Also by
- 30
- Members
- 689
- Popularity
- #36,712
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 9
- ISBNs
- 40
- Languages
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