Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck by Joseph Duplessis, 1775
Statue of Gluck in Weidenwang
House in Erasbach, constructed in 1713 by Gluck's father, where many believe the composer was born.
Jezeří Castle
Antonio Salieri
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Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the
Christoph Willibald Gluck
…music historian Daniel Heartz, there has been considerable controversy concerning Gluck's native language. Gluck's protégé in Vienna, the Italian-born Antonio Salieri, wrote in his memoirs (translated into German by Ignaz von Mosel), that "Gluck, whose native tongue was Czech, expressed himself in German only with…
Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, c. 1815
Salieri's teacher Florian Leopold Gassmann in an engraving (1775) by Johann Balzer
Beginning of the overture to Salieri's Armida in the autograph score
Adolphe Nourrit in the title role in Tarare, in Paris 1823