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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Erasbach, Germany
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 Palatina…
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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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2026
Orfeo ed Euridice – Teatro Regio di Parma
Movie Music
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2025
Les musiques de Fontainebleau au Théâtre impérial
Movie Original Music Composer
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2025
Orpheus and Eurydice
Movie Writer
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2025
The Fontainebleau Journey - Women's Music at the French Court
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2024
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2023
Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, Floirac
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Dancing Pina
Movie Music
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2022
Orfeo ed Euridice - New National Theatre Tokyo
Movie Music
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2022
Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Marie-Antoinette - 2019
Movie Music Producer
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2021
Gluck: Alceste
Movie Music
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2020
Alceste - Teatro La Fenice
Movie Music
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2019
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Movie Music
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2018
Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2018
Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2016
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Movie Original Music Composer
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2014
Orpheus and Eurydice
Movie Compositor
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2014
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Movie Self - Composer
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2014
Alceste
Movie Compositor
- 2013
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2011
The Metropolitan Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Movie Original Music Composer
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2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2008
Orpheus and Eurydice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2003
Orphée et Eurydice
Movie Original Music Composer
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2002
Iphigénie en Aulide
Movie Musician
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2001
Iphigénie en Tauride
Movie Writer
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1998
Jockey, professor och folkkär målare
Movie Music
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1991
Orfeo Ed Euridice
Movie Original Music Composer
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1986
Orpheus and Eurydice
Movie Music
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1978
The Refuge
Movie Music
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1976
Kouzelný strom
Movie Original Music Composer
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1973
Réjeanne Padovani
Movie Original Music Composer
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1971
Moulage
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