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Composer
Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Born July 2, 1714 in Erasbach, Germany
- Died November 15, 1787
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.
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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
Réjeanne Padovani1973
Dancing Pina2023
Moulage1971
The Refuge1978
Orpheus and Eurydice1986
Orfeo Ed Euridice1991
Iphigénie en Tauride2001
Orpheus and Eurydice2008
Filmography
- 2026Orfeo ed Euridice – Teatro Regio di ParmaFilmMusic
- 2025Les musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérialFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2025The Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French CourtFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2025Orpheus and EurydiceFilmWriter
- 2024Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigénie en Tauride @ Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2024FilmWriter, Original Music Composer
- 2023Dancing PinaFilmMusic
- 2023Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, FloiracFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2022Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Marie-Antoinette - 2019FilmMusic Producer
- 2022Orfeo ed Euridice - New National Theatre TokyoFilmMusic
- 2021Gluck: AlcesteFilmMusic
- 2020Alceste - Teatro La FeniceFilmMusic
- 2019Gluck: Orphée et EurydiceFilmMusic
- 2018Gluck - Orphée et EurydiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2018Gluck: Orphée et EuridiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2016Gluck: Iphigénie en TaurideFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2014Gluck: Orfeo ed EuridiceFilmSelf - Composer, Original Music Composer
- 2014Orpheus and EurydiceFilmCompositor
- 2014AlcesteFilmCompositor
- 2013Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire Live at the Royal Albert HallFilmMusic
- 2011The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en TaurideFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2009Gluck: Orfeo ed EuridiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2008Orpheus and EurydiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2003Orphée et EurydiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 2002Iphigénie en AulideFilmMusician
- 2001Iphigénie en TaurideFilmWriter
- 1998Jockey, professor och folkkär målareFilmMusic
- 1991Orfeo Ed EuridiceFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 1986Orpheus and EurydiceFilmMusic
- 1978The RefugeFilmMusic
- 1976Kouzelný stromFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 1973Réjeanne PadovaniFilmOriginal Music Composer
- 1971MoulageFilmMusic