Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Opera composer (1714–1787)

Christoph Willibald 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 the time, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought about…