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Christoph Willibald Gluck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Glück - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glück (transliterated Glueck ) (German: ) is the surname of: • Alois Glück (born 1940), German politician • Ernst Glück (1654-1705), German theologian and bible translator • Gustav Glück (1871-1952...
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Classical Music Pages essay from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music includes portrait and details of changes in opera during his life.
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Gluck's father, Hans Adam, was hunting and forest master for the Lobkowitz family in the Upper Palatinate, later in northern Bohemia. The family relocated several times during Christoph's young years, and little is known of the boy's schooling or of his first music instructors.
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First employed in the house of Prince Lobkowitz in Vienna, Gluck accompanied the court to Milan where he studied with Sammartini. A growing reputation as a composer of opera earned Gluck an invitation (1745) to London writing for the Haymarket Theatre.
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Alma Gluck - born Reba Feinsohn - was at one time (ca 1910's) among the world's most famous female concert singers and recording artists. She was the first one ever to have a million selling record in the history of recorded music!
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