Christoph Willibald Gluck

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classical composer composer opera composer person

Christoph Willibald Gluck was an 18th-century German composer best known for reforming opera by emphasizing dramatic coherence and expressive simplicity over virtuosic display.

Aliases (1)

Gluck ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	classical composer → composer → opera composer → person →
burialPlace	Matzleinsdorf Cemetery →
citizenship	Bohemia → Holy Roman Empire →
countryOfBirth	Electorate of the Palatinate →
countryOfDeath	Habsburg Monarchy →
dateOfBirth	1714-07-02 →
dateOfDeath	1787-11-15 →
familyName	Gluck →
genre	opera → opera comique → opera seria →
givenName	Christoph → Willibald →
hasWorkType	ballet → opera overture →
influenced	Hector Berlioz → Richard Wagner → Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart →
influencedBy	French tragédie lyrique → Italian opera seria tradition →
knownFor	emphasis on dramatic coherence in opera → emphasis on expressive simplicity in opera → opera reform →
languageOfWorkOrName	French → German → Italian →
movement	Classical period →
name	Christoph Willibald Gluck →
notableWork	Alceste → Armide → Iphigénie en Aulide → Iphigénie en Tauride → Orfeo ed Euridice → Paride ed Elena →
occupation	composer → music teacher →
placeOfBirth	Erasbach →
placeOfDeath	Vienna →
religion	Catholicism →
residence	Milan → Paris → Prague → Vienna →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Maria Anna Bergin →
studentOf	Giovanni Battista Sammartini →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chaconne → Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice ballet music → Orphée et Eurydice →	composer
Christoph Willibald Gluck ("Gluck") →	familyName
Chaconne →	hasComposer
Classical period →	hasKeyFigure
Sturm und Drang →	hasNotableComposer
Hector Berlioz →	influencedBy
Neoclassicism →	majorFigure
Chaconne →	musicBy
Christoph Willibald Gluck →	name
Académie royale de musique →	notableDirector