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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Gluck
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Interesting Facts about this famous classical composer and musician are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Accomplishments and reasons Gluck is famous: Classical Composer and musician - he was one of the leading musicians of the early classical period

  • Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Gluck was born on July 2, 1714
  • Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Erasbach, Germany
  • Fact 4 - Full Name: Christoph Willibald Gluck
  • Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1714-1787
  • Fact 6 - Name of mother and father: His parents names were Alexander Johannes and Maria Walburga
  • Fact 7 - Family background: The family moved to Bohemia in 1727, when his father became head forester in the service of Prince Philipp Hyazinth von Lobkowitz
  • Fact 8 - Childhood and education: Gluck received a good education and musical training as a singer in the church choir and by studying music
  • Fact 9 - Gluck travelled around Europe with an opera company
  • Fact 10 - Gluck was appointed Kapellmeister by Prince Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen
  • Fact 11 - Gluck married Marianne Pergin on September 15, 1750
  • Fact 12 - Gluck was appointed as "composer to the court theatre" in 1754 by Empress Maria Theresa.
  • Fact 13 - Gluck was knighted in Rome as Knight of the Golden Spur in 1756
  • Fact 14 - In 1774 Gluck was appointed composer to the Austrian imperial court in Vienna
  • Fact 15 - Cause of death: Gluck died due to a due to a stroke
  • Fact 16 - Date of Death: Gluck died on November 15, 1787 in Vienna, Austria
  • Fact 17 - His compositions and work focussed on opera
  • Fact 18 - His music lives on and the musical works of this famous composer and musician include the following:
    • Operas:
      Artaserse
      Demofoonte
      Arsace
      Sofonisba
      Ippolito
      Cleonice
      Il Tigrane
      Poro
      Orfeo ed Euridice
      Alceste
    • Other works:
      La contesa dei Numi
      Ezio
      Issipile
      Iphigénie en Aulide
      Iphigénie en Tauride

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