Christoph Gluck Dance Of The Blessed Spirits
Feb 12, 2020
3 minutes
In this latest issue, we return to a wonderful work by the operatic composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). Gluck was born in Bavaria, and was urged to follow his father’s profession of forester. Thankfully for the development of Western music, Gluck resisted this and left home in his early teens, moving to Prague and supporting himself with his prodigious talent as a church musician while continuing music education.
He moved to Vienna in his early 20s, finding the necessary studies and network of people to develop what would be an illustrious international career as an opera composer.
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