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Christoph Willibald Gluck

1714 - 1787

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Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christoph Willibald Gluck is the 37th most popular composer (down from 30th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Germany (down from 69th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Composer.

Gluck is most famous for his operas, especially Orfeo ed Euridice.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 37 out of 1,451. Before him are Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, and Béla Bartók. After him are Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Strauss I, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonio Salieri, and Gaetano Donizetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 1. After him are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Joseph I of Portugal, Pontiac, Claude Joseph Vernet, Alaungpaya, Niccolò Jommelli, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, and Emer de Vattel. Among people deceased in 1787, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 1. After him are Leopold Mozart, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Alphonsus Liguori, Carl Friedrich Abel, Pompeo Batoni, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Louise of France, Şahin Giray, Johann Karl August Musäus, William Watson, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 81 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Richard Strauss (1864), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Helmut Kohl (1930), and Emil Fischer (1852). After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Martin Bormann (1900), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Clara Zetkin (1857), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 10. Before him are Richard Wagner (1813), Johannes Brahms (1833), Robert Schumann (1810), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), and Richard Strauss (1864). After him are Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Johann Christian Bach (1735), Hans Zimmer (1957), and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928).

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