Christoph

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Christoph is the given name of Christoph Willibald Gluck, the influential 18th-century composer known for reforming opera.

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Christoph canonical 11

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
human
opera composer
activeYearsEnd 1780s
activeYearsStart 1730s
birthName Christoph Willibald Gluck
surface form: Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
burialPlace Matzleinsdorf Protestant Cemetery
surface form: Matzleinsdorf cemetery, Vienna
countryOfCitizenship Holy Roman Empire
dateOfBirth 1714-07-02
dateOfDeath 1787-11-15
educatedAt Charles University in Prague
employer Habsburg court
familyName Christoph Willibald Gluck
surface form: Gluck
genre ballet
opera
givenName Christoph self-linksurface differs
influenced Hector Berlioz
Richard Wagner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
instrument organ
violin
knownFor Gluckian opera reform
reform of opera seria
languageOfWorkOrName French
German
Italian
movement Classical period
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea primacy of drama over vocal display in opera
notableWork Alceste
Armide
Iphigenia in Tauris
surface form: Iphigénie en Tauride

Orfeo ed Euridice
Paride ed Elena
occupation composer
music teacher
placeOfBirth Electorate of Bavaria
Erasbach
Upper Palatinate
placeOfDeath Archduchy of Austria
Vienna
sexOrGender male
spouse Maria Anna Bergin
style reform opera
workedIn London, England
surface form: London

Paris
Vienna

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Friedrich Schiller givenName Christoph
Christopher hasVariant Christoph
Christoph givenName Christoph self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Bückeburg Bach givenName Christoph
subject surface form: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Christoph Sauer givenName Christoph