Roots to Christoph Willibald Gluck:
Erasbach, Dresden
German Composers
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johannes Brahms
- Dietrich Buxtehude
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Georg Friedrich H�ndel
- Hans-Werner Henze
- Paul Hindemith
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Helmut Lachenmann
- Frederick Loewe
- Albert Lortzing
- Gustav Mahler
- Siegfried Matthus
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Carl Orff
- Max Reger
- Aribert Reimann
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Arnold Sch�nberg
- Heinrich Sch�tz
- Robert Schumann
- Clara Schumann
- Carl Stamitz
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Richard Strauss
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Richard Wagner
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Kurt Weill
- Carl Friedrich Zelter
- Hans Zender
Roots to Composers
- Augsburg
- Bad K�stritz
- Bad Oldesloe
- Baden-Baden
- Bayreuth
- Berlin
- Bonn
- Brand
- Dessau
- Dresden
- Eisenach
- Erasbach
- Eutin
- Frankfurt am Main
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- G�tersloh
- Halle
- Hamburg
- Hanau
- Heidelberg
- Kalist
- Karlsruhe
- Kassel
- Kerpen/M�drath
- Cologne
- Leipzig
- L�beck
- Magdeburg
- Mallenuppen
- Mannheim
- Munich
- Salzburg
- Siegburg
- Stuttgart
- Weimar
- Wiesbaden
- Zwickau
Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787
Christoph Willibald Ritter (knight) von Gluck was born in 1714 in Erasbach in the Upper Palatinate. Prague, Milan, Paris, Dresden and Vienna are just a few of the places in which this most "European" of 18th-century composers sojourned. In his 107 operas (of which only 47 survive), Gluck pursued a new ideal of dramatic stringency that used powerful, real emotions. This placed restraints on the effusive style of virtuoso singing and opened a new chapter in operatic history.
Roots to Christoph Willibald Gluck:
Erasbach, Dresden
Roots to Christoph Willibald Gluck:
Erasbach, Dresden
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