Christoph W. Gluck’s life, music and influence on 18th-century history of opera. Known for his operatic reforms, famous for opera Orfeo ed Euridice.

German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 -1787), born in Erasbach, Germany, is famous for his operas Orfeo ed Euridice, Iphigénie en Tauride, Iphigénie en Aulide and Alceste. He married Marianne Pergin, daughter of a rich Viennese merchant.

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